They’ve been crawling all over the place — a banner year, it seems. About an inch and a half long, these black caterpillars sport honey-brown and blond bristles, with tufts of black bristles fore and ...

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The first tiger moth to evolve had ancestral defenses--this species is the base of the tiger moth evolutionary tree." Five species of Gnophaela are members of the tiger moths, day flying moths that ...

There is snow on the ground this morning. I hope it doesn't last long. I know it's inevitable, but it seems that this fall has been cool, wet and busy — and I'd like a little more time to try to enjoy ...

Utetheisa ornatrix, the ornate arctiid / William E. Conner -- Evolution and taxonomic confusion in Arctiidae / Susan Weller ... [et al.] -- The immature stages : structure, function, behavior, and ...