The butterfly and moth have their behavioral and physical differences. That includes butterflies being active during the day while moths are nocturnal. The stages between larva and adult have ...

Larvae in the final stages of development stop feeding to search for a location to form a pupa, or chrysalis — the last stage of development before the emergence of the adult butterfly. The fifth ...

Larvae have six legs and use the middle and hindmost ones called prolegs to scale trees. According to butterfly keeper Nagisa Mizuochi at the Adachi Park of Living Things in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward ...

Some families of caterpillars (larvae of butterflies and moths) have developed a specific kind of interaction with ants. One of these families (Riodinidae) includes two species that interact ...

When a male and a female butterfly reproduce, the female lays eggs somewhere safe. When these eggs hatch out, they become caterpillars. This is called the larva stage. Animals all grow into ...

Butterfly bush isn't a larval host plant and doesn't provide the habitat butterflies need for the next cycle of butterflies. Here's why butterfly bush isn't the best plant for butterflies and ...

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The blowfly larvae bodies have evolved to closely resemble those of the termites, the researchers report February 10 in Current Biology. Inside the nest, termites recognize each other through touch, ...

A butterfly egg is tiny, but wasps can still develop inside it. When a wasp larva finds itself nestled inside a butterfly egg, it has all the sustenance it needs in that hard-shelled, protective host ...