Certain crafty caterpillars have an unusual approach to ensuring they live long enough to become a butterfly: each convinces ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal.

Research from the University of Warwick has revealed that butterfly caterpillars use sophisticated rhythmic signals to communicate with ants, helping them gain protection, food, and access to ant ...

This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it’s not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths and ...

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it could inspire next generation microphones.

An international research team found that butterfly caterpillars use sophisticated rhythmic signals to communicate with ants.

In a remote and lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species that makes a living in such a macabre way that they have nicknamed it the ...

Adjunct professor, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and the Graduate Department of Forestry, University of Toronto Chris MacQuarrie is a research scientist with Natural ...

These caterpillars rely on ants to tend them, and they use a surprisingly complex sense of rhythm to make it happen ...