Pages tagged with Caterpillars

Plants communicate using a chemical language,using scent as the means for sending and receiving information.Some plants vocabularies contain more than 100 chemical 'words' which are used to exchange information about pests or to call for assistance.

The fungus invades the caterpillar moth larva, mummifying the victim, and eventually growing out of the caterpillar head, appearing above ground, in May or June, in high Himalayan meadows.

The truly gorgeous Io moth creates an equally lovely caterpillar turning from orange to bright green, and gaining hairy spines as it develops, which, on contact with an intruder release a poison causing a great deal of pain to whatever touched it.

My plans for a perfect evening were destroyed by a hairy cateripillar.