Deconstructing 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar': ... Readers might observe that the consumption of “one nice green leaf” on Sunday made the very hungry caterpillar feel “much better.” ...

Tobacco plants outsmart hungry caterpillars. ... Like many plants, when tobacco is damaged – by hungry herbivores or otherwise – it gives off chemicals called green leaf volatiles (GLVs).

Item 1 of 6 Copies of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," by acclaimed children's author and illustrator Eric Carle, who publisher Penguin Kids said has died at age 91, are seen in a bookstore in ...

Pity the tobacco hornworm caterpillar, which appears to have been outsmarted by its favourite food. Every time it feasts on tobacco leaves, it inadvertently converts molecules released by the plant ...

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American author-illustrator Eric Carle first published his picture book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' on March 20, 1969. More than 50 years since then, the book has become a children's classic and ...

Picnickers in East Coast woods may get some hungry visitors this summer. But at least they won't ask for sandwiches. Leaf-eating gypsy moth caterpillars are out in force in parts of the mid ...