Insects are all around us—an ant on the sidewalk, a bee buzzing by, a butterfly floating on the breeze—and they shape the ...

Caterpillars shed their skin several times as they grow, and in the final stage of metamorphosis, they form their pupa ...

Brood XIV will emerge this summer to overwhelm predators, shake up ecosystems, and terrify everyone with eardrums.

In the light of the moon glimmering over just six square miles of a mountain range on O‘ahu, a little egg waited to hatch.

In Hawaii, a rare carnivorous caterpillar was discovered to engage in a truly gruesome behavior. It disguises itself in the [ ...

The brown recluse and black widow are the most common venomous spiders in the U.S., Mississippi. What are their habitats?

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking ...

Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn’t spin ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

The findings about the rare bone collector caterpillar, a newly discovered species native to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission says spraying is planned for 16 State Game Lands to combat the spongy moth, formerly the ...