The Brother Caterpillar, Raphia frater: Brother caterpillars rest on leaf undersides by day and are easily found by turning branches or examining leaves from below. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 30 / 51 ...

Leaf-rolling caterpillars aren't pests, as they are widely considered, they actually underpin tropical ecosystems as other insects use their leafy houses.

We are all used to seeing caterpillars hide themselves away and emerge as butterflies or moths, but the species featured in ...

The see-through amphibian was resting on a leaf in a rainforest in Costa Rica when it was surrounded by caterpillars who began eating the foliage beneath its feet.

The great orange tip caterpillar mimics a snake when threatened. nujames10/Shutterstock. Some caterpillars take another, more deadly approach to self-defense.

It took only a light touch to drive a leaf tip’s resident to retreat on its lifeline, leaving the caterpillar literally hanging by a thread. In the other 10 encounters, the intruders heeded the ...

At just 1–2mm long, newborn warty birch caterpillars (Falcaria bilineata) are minute, but even though they are tiny they defend the world’s smallest territory: the tip of a birch leaf.

This caterpillar printer, if you can call it that, is sorta tech-related, depending on what your definition of "is" is. The inventor explains that you can ...

Why it's awesome: The caterpillar of the gum leaf skeletonizer moth is a hairy little creature that keeps its old head capsules and stacks them on its head.