caterpillar
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A delay of just a few days sharply lowers caterpillar survival and cuts feeding damage to the trees by about 55 percent.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
They are being carried by Crawler‑Transporter‑2, a low‑slung, tank‑like vehicle on caterpillar tracks that Nasa built in 1965 to inch Saturn V Moon rockets to the pad.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
If you’ve ever glimpsed a caterpillar dangling from a branch by a silk thread, they’re on their way down.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Testing by the Xerces Society and the University of Nevada-Reno found that milkweed leaves, the main food source for the monarch caterpillar, were contaminated by 64 pesticides.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025
They drove under the Arch and turned east, twenty bulky, quiet-running, barge-like trucks on caterpillar treads, going single file down the deep streets of Erhenrang through the shadows of morning.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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