Most caterpillars won't do much harm, but this unique-looking stinging species could cause painful welts alongside other, ...

person looking at butterfly in garden with flowers - Katrin_timoff/Getty Images There's nothing quite like the wildlife that flocks to your garden during the warmer months of the year. Those melodic ...

Animal venoms are viewed as one of the best sources for new molecules with potential applications in medicine, agriculture, and science. But curiously, despite extensive studies of the venoms produced ...

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Have you spotted a Monarch or Black Swallowtail butterfly this summer? There are ways to attract and support them in your ...

Some families of caterpillars (larvae of butterflies and moths) have developed a specific kind of interaction with ants. One of these families (Riodinidae) includes two species that interact solely ...

Researchers have investigated the communication between two insect species, and what they discovered seems straight out of Tarzan. Some butterfly caterpillars vibrate in an unexpectedly complex ...

Video shows a bonecollector caterpillar attacking and eating a smaller caterpillar, after chewing through its silk case. Video edited to 2x speed. (Video: Rubinoff et al.) A new species of carnivorous ...