The life of a caterpillar before it enters its cocoon mostly consists of eating as much as it can while avoiding being eaten itself. To stay alive, the Nessus sphinx hawkmoth caterpillar’s defense ...

Caterpillars start out as tiny creatures. In the beginning they eat lots of food — just like the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” — and get bigger and bigger. Eventually the caterpillar will be ...

"How do caterpillars make cocoons?" asked a preschooler at the Libertyville Recreation Department Kinder Korner Preschool program. Moths and butterflies are similar in many ways, but their path to ...