Further observation of the nest revealed that the female hummingbird had added to its hatchling’s caterpillar camouflage ... eerily similar to the larvae of moths in the Megalopygidae and ...

Browntail moth caterpillars (Euproctis chrysorrhoea) have tiny barbed hairs containing toxins. These poisonous hairs cause skin rashes when touched and may cause breathing problems if inhaled.

A stationary Carolina sphinx moth (Manduca sexta) is the Cinderella of the animal kingdom. The hummingbird-size insect has dull, dark wings that are mottled like charred wood, and a plump body ...

These caterpillars, which are the larval stages of moths, have one or two generations per year. You’ll see them from spring to fall before they transform into non-descript brown moths. There are many ...

(See the video below…) It turns out the hummingbird might fend off predators by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar that lives in the same region. In a new paper published March 17 in Ecology ...

A white-necked jacobin hummingbird was incubating its eggs. Credit: Michael Castaño-Díaz A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect ...

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So, for the hummingbirds, it would work best if there were loads more toxic caterpillars in the forest than hummingbird chicks. The theory is that if there are lots of hummingbird chicks ...

By resembling these hazardous caterpillars, the hummingbird chick might be fooling potential predators into staying away. Young animals often face extreme vulnerability to predation, especially in ...

DEDHAM, Maine — The Maine Forest Service is encouraging Mainers to remove browntail moth webs from trees before caterpillars emerge in April. Browntail moths are a harmful invasive species. Not only ...

This tiny hummingbird chick, a white-necked jacobin, took on the look of a caterpillar upon hatching. According to a news release from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Jay Falk, a U ...