Caterpillars start out as tiny creatures. In the beginning they eat lots of food — just like the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” — and get bigger and bigger. Eventually the caterpillar will be ...

Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis as a kid -- a wriggly caterpillar molts its skin to form a tough chrysalis and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. But how exactly do chrysalises stay ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

A Jeremy Hemberger, department of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Caterpillars start out as tiny creatures. In the beginning they eat lots of food — just like the book “The Very ...

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful insects. There are also many beautiful moths. They have three main body regions ...