Learn how to spot caterpillar damage early, identify harmful garden pests, and use natural methods to protect plants without ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. NASHVILLE — After all my blue false indigo was killed by a late frost, I went down to ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, together with their colleagues at the Universities of Stockholm and Tokyo, report in a new study in PNAS that larvae of the ...

For an entire season, Emily Carter transformed a small corner of her backyard into a safe place for monarch butterflies.

These insects can strip leaves, destroy flowers, and ruin crops before you even notice them ...

When Kristen Giefer’s father would tend to his vegetable garden, he’d come across small creatures, the likes of which he called, “cabbage worms.” Giefer would eventually learn these ...

From swallowtails to monarchs, each species requires specific host plants for caterpillars and nectar sources for adults to complete their life cycle.

Biologists deposited caterpillars of the rare frosted elfin butterfly on its host plant, the sundial lupine, in north Florida. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...