caterpillar

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

This year also featured some of the most memorable art in the festival’s history, with the hippos running “Corporate Headquarters” and the transformation of Poetic Kinetics’ Coachella caterpillar into a butterfly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

After years of work with landowners by the charity Butterfly Conservation, the latest survey of silken caterpillar nests has seen huge increases.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

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

A contemporary of Leeuwenhoek’s, Jan Swammerdam, showed that butterflies, which had been regarded as new creatures born out of the pupa, were already present within the caterpillar: their organs could be identified by dissection.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The meadow was established in 2023 as part of a scheme to encourage people to grow plants that provide food for caterpillars.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Julie was raising some caterpillars too, and she cared a lot about them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Duke of Burgundy caterpillars only eat the leaves of cowslips and primroses, and only when the plants are grown in very specific conditions.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

But oak trees have a surprising response when caterpillars become too abundant.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

She wrote in her study book of feeding aspen leaves to a box of dark-headed caterpillars she’d brought along.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman