Beautiful and exotic caterpillars crawling across Pennsylvania are engaging humans, who feel the need to touch them and hold up. With most caterpillars that contact is inconsequential, but there ...

Exotic azalea caterpillars, as colorful as the flowers themselves, are dining on azalea leaves, and puss caterpillars, with their venomous hairs, are moseying along tree branches.

Exotic insects discovered by Customs at Dulles, officials say. One of them had never been seen in this area. December 11, 2024. 2 min. By Martin Weil.

The first thing Nancy Kilmartin noticed was the frass. That’s science-speak for caterpillar poop — little dark pellets baby butterflies or moths expel as they eat. And it was scattered in a ...

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Lemann said, "The caterpillar is a generalist that will feed on something in the neighborhood of 50 different species plants, both native live oaks, and exotic both trees and shrubs." ...

It could be that the insects that thrive in cities are generalists, for instance, or that many of the insects are exotic, too. The study didn’t classify insects as native or not.