These garden caterpillars are friends, not foes! Learn which caterpillars won't hurt you or your plants, and how to identify ...

There's nothing quite like the wildlife that flocks to your garden during the warmer months of the year. Those melodic songbirds, the mischievous squirrels, and the creepy-crawly visitors that you may ...

A new study suggests that oak trees attacked by caterpillars can delay leafing out the following spring. That tiny shift, ...

Spring is finally here, and if you've got kids, you're probably already thinking about ways to keep them busy that don't involve another screen. Between warmer weather and everything starting to bloom ...

In late April, across the oak forests of northern Bavaria, millions of spongy moth caterpillars hatch from egg masses glued ...

Every beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar, and caterpillars have to eat. This may surprise you, but the average caterpillar has a very restrictive diet, feeding on only a few plants, and some ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. NASHVILLE — After all my blue false indigo was killed by a late frost, I went down to ...

Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests. The nest owners, none the wiser, cherish, brood, and raise them. In the insect world, there is something that puts the cuckoo to shame. Caterpillars of ...

Of the 59 native species monitored, 33 have declined, 25 have improved and one mountain species has too little data to assess ...