Cultural tip: Avoid overfertilizing roses with water-soluble, nitrogen-based fertilizers, which prompts overgrowth of ...

Buck moth caterpillars are back, some with a vengeance. How will this year's population stack up to last year? Here's what to ...

Each insect has 4,000 muscles that it uses to move, with each segment having 70 muscles alone. Prolegs Are Lost During Metamorphosis When a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis, it sheds its ...

Newborn caterpillars protect leaf-tip homes with buzzing and drumming signals. These vibrations scare off rivals and help avoid fights.

that act as toxins to protect the trees from many insects." Because the spongy moth caterpillar ends its leaf-eating spree relatively early in the aspen tree's growing season, the defoliated trees ...

Hertz said the caterpillars will eat foliage and leave the midrib of the leaf, which will then curl up. Another sign is small, lime green frass — also known as insect poop — on the plant ...