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 ...

Dorset is home to an abundance of different wildlife, including several species of caterpillar. The insect is the larval stage of a moth or butterfly, and is distinctive for its long, worm-like body ...

One of the best-loved sights outside is a brightly colored butterfly. Surprisingly, the life of the showy butterfly depends on the humble, inconspicuous caterpillar that precedes it. Fritillaries, ...

This time of year, we often see a plethora of different caterpillars in the garden. The willow oaks in my backyard have become a haven for orange-striped oakworms, which have been showing up on my ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — After a few rounds of summer heat, signs of fall are starting to pop up across central Indiana. Recently, you may have seen these white-looking "woolly" caterpillars. Weather lore says ...