People have been warned to stay away from areas of common land in Surrey as a council deals with high numbers of a type of ...

Minnesota state officials are considering new regulations for residents, industry and tourists to slow the spread of an invasive species known as the gypsy moth. The department of agriculture is ...

Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

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AN urgent health alert has been issued over swarms of toxic caterpillars in the UK. Nests of the insects have been spotted in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They're back, they're hairy, they're everywhere, they seemingly fall out of the sky, and they can give you a nasty rash. Tussock ...

A band of painter's tape around a tree trunk is used to trap some later instar spongy moth caterpillars, showing their distinctive red and blue dot pattern. (Karla Salp, Washington State Department of ...

Buck moth caterpillars have made their annual spring invasion in Louisiana. Across New Orleans, residents have reported the familiar, spiny creature crowding sidewalks, falling from tree branches and ...

The famous mezcal “worm” has long puzzled scientists, but DNA testing has finally cracked the case. Researchers found that ...

They're back, they're hairy, they're everywhere, they seemingly fall out of the sky, and they can give you a nasty rash. Tussock moth caterpillars have returned to Florida. These fuzzy little critters ...