The larvae of the spongy moth, if untreated, can cause severe defoliation to oak forests that are important habitats for ...

The insecticide being used is an insect growth regulator called ... Eating the sprayed foliage triggers pre-mature molting in the spongy moth caterpillars, and they cease eating and die, according ...

After escaping hungry fish, mayfly duns fly to streamside vegetation to once again molt, this time transforming ... Caddisflies are aquatic insects that are related to moths.

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

If an experiment is repeated under similar conditions, the results should be the same. In reality, the situation is often different—scientists speak of a "reproducibility crisis," which affects ...

Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by ...

13"H x 6"W (Sight) 16"H x 20"W ...

As a pet, it buries itself in the cage substrate and often hibernates while molting. Hibernation can go on for several ... which is when the flying insects it feeds on become scarce. It first prepares ...