"Whooo ... are ... you?" asked the hookah-smoking caterpillar of Alice, in Wonderland. Asking the question of the caterpillar instead, an international team of ...

In the summer months you get to see a lot of really lovely butterflies and interesting-looking moths in the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument region, but keep an eye out for their babies, too.

The big, meaty green caterpillars that many of us have been fighting to eradicate from our gardens this summer make plenty of people squirm. In part it’s because they are among the largest ...

I saw my first hummingbird moth at our new house this month, enjoying nectar from petunias on the patio. If you’ve never seen a hummingbird moth before, it looks like a small hummingbird, with the ...

Tobacco hornworms are a major plant pest across the United States. They are also masters of disguise. The Mississippi State University Extension Service has demonstrated this in a game of ...

The big, meaty green caterpillars that many of us have been fighting to eradicate from our gardens this summer make plenty of people squirm. In part it s because they are among the largest ...

As it gets towards the end of the summer growing season, you tend to be a bit less observant in the garden. Then one day you look out and your tomato or pepper plant is half gone. Look closely and you ...

About this time of year many of us are finding insects eating in our vegetable gardens; most are welcome because they are eating each other and some not so much because they are after our prized crops ...

Moths need just the essence of a flower's scent to identify it, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. Although a flower's odor can be composed of hundreds of chemicals, a ...

I saw your recent column about tomato fruitworms, and was wondering if this pest also eats leaves. The leaves of one of my tomato plants are being eaten by something. A couple of the branches now have ...