caterpillar

When this coarse fern is trimmed it is "litter", the dead leaves on the floor that create a warmer ecosystem underneath which is essential for the growth of the High Brown caterpillar.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

At least in the sampled bottles, it was consistently the caterpillar of a single moth species.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026

Trefry likened this awkward time of life to the stage in a butterfly’s development when a caterpillar disappears inside a chrysalis and dissolves into goo before reforming into something entirely new.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025

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

A caterpillar does not become a butterfly in stuttering steps.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I told my wife that I’d rather bury it in the backyard and let the caterpillars play Rocky,” he said shortly before the movie opened.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

“You know: butterflies, moths, caterpillars, birds. That would do a lot to make this landscape come alive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

In exchange, the ants aggressively protect their host plants from leaf-eating insects such as caterpillars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

However, it said previous drought conditions across much of the UK may have caused food plants used by caterpillars to wither before they had finished feeding.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

We were so broke that for weeks we ate nothing but bowls of marogo, a kind of wild spinach, cooked with caterpillars.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah