Many caterpillars feed on the leaves of oak trees. Most will not do much damage, but some can pose a real threat to the ...

Explores various types of insect homes and their life cycles. It discusses how insects like moths, webworms, spittle bugs, gall wasps, beetles, ants, cicadas, ant lions, caddis fly larvae, wasps ...

Butterflies and moths have a 4-part life cycle, but the larva - or caterpillar - phase is perhaps the most intriguing.

Eggs hatch in late spring. Caterpillars eat leaves through midsummer. Caterpillars pupate and transform into moths in late July and August. Moths live only a few days to mate, lay eggs and then ...

The Polyphemus moth is a large, beautiful moth belonging to the giant silkworm family. It is seen in the Skiatook area from mid-April through August.

Avid nature watcher David John spotted a neat caterpillar in his wife’s garden early in October, then caught the adult form as it emerged days later.

Young buck moth caterpillars are shown on an oak tree. If you choose to spray to eliminate them and their painful stings, now is the time to do it, before they grow bigger and head down the tree ...

The caterpillar will pupate and then emerge as a striking 2-inch wide showy moth. Moths, like this luna moth, can be striking and beautiful. Look for moths at a wall by a nighttime porch light.

Trees acting in self-defense against ravenous caterpillars are inadvertently harming native moths, research shows.

This spongy moth-induced carnage does not bode well for other insects that depend on aspen for food, such as the native silk moth Anthereae polyphemus, which feeds on aspen from mid- to late summer.

Clearwater Parks officials are warning of an increase in tussock moth caterpillars, the fuzzy caterpillars that cause a stinging rash if you touch them.