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When the larvae hatch, she will feed them chewed-up caterpillars until they are ready to pupate.
Seasonally they dine on insects, especially caterpillars, beetles, and grasshoppers.
Dill and fennel are good plants for the caterpillars of the black swallowtail butterfly.
Monarch caterpillars feed exclusively on leaves of milkweed plants, which grow in and around cornfields.
He says that the caterpillars are ermine moths, which weave silk tents over bird cherry and other fruit trees.
Their nesting success will depend on whether there is a plentiful supply of tent caterpillars this year or not.
I've found that tent caterpillars and army webworms come into orchards in spotlike fashion.
After two to four weeks, caterpillars envelop themselves in jade-green chrysalises, where they stay for 10 to 14 days.
Then, over the course of several weeks, the children watched the caterpillars grow bigger, spin their chrysalises, and emerge as butterflies.
The leaves are high in vitamins A and C, preparing the caterpillars for the chrysalis.
She also carried on her research, collecting caterpillars on the Frisian heaths and moors and making notes and drawings.
Butterfly caterpillars produce calls that appear to play a role in maintaining symbiotic associations with ants.
One teacher thought the caterpillars might belong to silk ermine moths, but we're not sure.
Predator avoidance is a significant factor driving the evolutionary development of silver-spotted skipper caterpillars.
Knowledge that some larvae possess urticating structures should not generate undue fear of caterpillars.
We had a huge infestation of yellow woollybear caterpillars and green clover worm moths and am finding some fall armyworm moths.
The inhabitants of the forest area subsist on cassava, bananas, plantains, palm-nut-oil, forest caterpillars, and the leaf of a wild plant.
The strongest silk, however, is made by caterpillars that refuse to be domesticated.
The caterpillars that spin commercial silk can make much tougher or more elastic threads, depending on how fast they're forced to spin.
For example, many homeowners had gardens, which contained cabbage, broccoli, and other crops as host plants for cabbage white caterpillars.
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The caterpillars have long and slender twig-like bodies, and are never provided with more than two pairs of claspers.
Most of the geometer caterpillars, of which we have already spoken, are well trained in the art of deception.
The caterpillars of the sphingid are known to behave themselves in different manners when attacked.
These looper caterpillars cannot shorten nor lengthen their segments at will, as other caterpillars, but only bend their bodies.
These caterpillars belong to several species of the tortricid moths, which are themselves comparatively small and drab in colour.
There are caterpillars which eat the leaves of the euphorbia, or spurge, for instance.
We could hear the crackling of the fire, and wormed forward like caterpillars.
The Desmoscolecida move by looping their bodies like geometrid caterpillars or leeches, as well as by creeping on their setae.
Among the Lepidoptera, we notice a reduction in the number of pro-legs in the 'looper' caterpillars of geometrid moths.
Its greenish eggs are laid on bedstraw, and in July and August the caterpillars may be found on the same kind of plant.
In form the chrysalides of butterflies and moths are as variable as the caterpillars.
Thus, the perfect insects have only four walking legs, the caterpillars are all spiny, and the chrysalides are angular.
He adds that caterpillars measuring about an inch in length when collected, were preparing for pupation a week later.
When your caterpillars are full-sized they will transform into chrysalides.
About three years back, a dress was woven by the caterpillars for the Queen of Bavaria.
They search every tree, shrub, and vine for caterpillars, spiders and grasshoppers.
The caterpillars of the sphingid appear also in some cases to vary in a manner very suggestive of phytophagic influences.
In spinose caterpillars these organs are generally planted between two spines, one being above and the other below.
The spurge plants were long ago covered up by drifting sand, and the caterpillars were all destroyed.
Do you see that cobwebby nest with all those hairy caterpillars on it and around it up in that tree?
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