Be on the lookout for a bug that resembles Cousin Itt. It may seem harmless but it can do real damage if you’re bitten.

Four days later a minuscule caterpillar, also called the larva, emerges, already voraciously hungry. Its first meal is its own eggshell, and then it moves on to munch the milkweed leaves.

Each larva spins a double layered whitish cocoon about 1 inch ... lines on the front wings instead of the white ones characteristic of the adult eastern tent caterpillar. The wing span of the female ...

These wasps lay their eggs in the egg of moth, Trichoplusia ni. The host larva as a fourth instar is shown at top. Copidosoma fight for resources as they consume the caterpillar. Some differentiate ...

The life cycle of pitiocampus is egg, larva (caterpillar), nymph (chrysalis) and adult (moth). Although pitiocampus can help renew pine foliage, enrich the soil and serve as nutrition for other ...

The unfortunately named puss caterpillar (Megalopyge opercularis) is also known as the Southern flannel moth larva and is probably in your yard right now. They feed on oak, pecan, persimmon ...