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

Oak trees have a surprising trick to fight back against hungry caterpillars: they simply wait. When trees are heavily ...

Populations have steeply declined since the caterpillars’ 2022 peak made working outside in central and coastal Maine riskier and itchier, but the caterpillars haven’t disappeared.

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

Is that part of the plant, a bird’s nest, or caused by an insect? Cottony white masses in the crotch of tree branches are ...

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 ...

Oak trees delay spring leaf-out after caterpillar attacks, reducing damage by more than 50% and revealing a new way trees ...

Gardeners are being urged to spare caterpillars in the seasonal purging of pests, calling them "incredibly important to ...

Recently, I visited Tilden Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley. I remembered seeing California pipevine, Aristolochia ...

New England is home to some really, really weird caterpillars. Take, for example, the Harris’ three spot. The creepy crawler looks a bit like a spider and a bit like bird poop. As if that isn't weird ...

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