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Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...
Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...
In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a ...
Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.
Learn what an American dagger moth and caterpillar looks like. Also find out which host plants these moths need.
The invasive spongy moth, a destroyer of northeastern forests, has a natural foe in a Japanese fungus that needs certain ...
The Museum’s digitisation team has undertaken a year-long project to digitise the giant butterfly-moths, also known as the Castniidae collection. Digitiser Glory Turnbull shares more.
Samples of female spongy moths and larvae — part of a hundred year old collection at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven. The female moths have wings but are flightless.