This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it’s not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths and ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts. In their ...

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found an incredible strategy. A species of caterpillar that scientists are ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged body ...

Most caterpillars spend their days chewing leaves and preparing for the long transformation into butterflies or moths. That peaceful image falls apart when you meet the creature scientists now call ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans.

In a remote and lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species that makes a living in such a macabre way that they have nicknamed it the ...