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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

The caterpillars most likely guard their leaf tip because it offers a good escape route. If an undeterred intruder continues to approach, the caterpillar drops a silk thread and flees like Spider-Man.

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.

For older caterpillars strong enough to risk glue, Petschenka argues, those bleed-out cuts can do more than disarm a leaf. By this stage, the monarch caterpillars feast on the latex itself.