Caterpillars happily eat wild cherry, tulip tree, cottonwood, sweetbay, willow and white ash. Grow these butterfly host plants to attract pollinators. Eastern swallowtail caterpillars are green ...

The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

Photos of some of the most common furry caterpillars you'll find in your garden, plus which ones are likely to become pests, ...

The buildup of natural control factors eventually reduces tent caterpillar populations to a low ebb, but in the meantime serious defoliation of many kinds of deciduous trees can occur. The eastern ...

On June 8, 2011, the journal Nature published a commentary by 19 ecologists who urged conservationists to “assess organisms ...

National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...

Debinski, one of four principal investigators for the project, led the study of eastern monarchs ... of food for the camp's population of monarch caterpillars. The researchers wanted to know ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and ...

Debinski, one of four principal investigators for the project, led the study of eastern monarchs ... of food for the camp's population of monarch caterpillars. The researchers wanted to know ...

black cocoons around the eastern Great Lakes. The husks are created by small, greenish-gray caterpillars that go through an astonishing transformation. Then, around the summer solstice ...