The scientists put eight caterpillars on a small plant, so there were plenty of caterpillars to eat.
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The caterpillars on a treated tomato plant ate twice as many other caterpillars than the ones on a control plant.
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He said the ants then take the tiny caterpillars into their brood chamber, where the caterpillars feed on ant larva.
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Take away one food source (leaves) and caterpillars are quick to turn to the next most available thing, which usually happens to be other caterpillars.
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The sticky, webby bivouacs of Eastern tent caterpillars festoon virtually every black cherry tree in sight, and the caterpillars have chewed the poor plants virtually leafless.
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Monarch caterpillars can fall prey to predators, parasites and diseases, but if there's enough milkweed to sustain them, at least some of the caterpillars will ultimately survive to form a chrysalis.
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Then they put each plant inside an arena with eight caterpillars and watched for eight days to see how the caterpillars would handle two choices: Eat the plant, or eat your fellow caterpillar.
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By becoming less tasty, the menu options for caterpillars change.
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Have she and Reese Witherspoon chowed down on some caterpillars?
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Opinions vary about what constitutes a "good" year for caterpillars.
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Caterpillars and cold snaps can wreak havoc on valuable plants.
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Birds, Dr. Tallamy notes, nourish themselves on these native caterpillars.
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That said, the Spurs turn caterpillars into butterflies every year.
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Last year he introduced "thousands" of caterpillars to the garden.
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The eggs hatch into caterpillars that develop underground through winter.
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And plants can communicate with one another and with caterpillars.
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Moth caterpillars, for example, try and time their eggs to hatch at the same time as budburst as this allows baby caterpillars to chomp away at the freshest juiciest leaves that promote optimal caterpillar growth.
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Caterpillars, stem borers and mirid bugs were also damaging the crops.
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But even if the caterpillars are natural, they're still a nuisance.
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There were some big, furry caterpillars and a lot of them.
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Trees can survive one or two years of defoliation by caterpillars.
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People say caterpillars, in particular, are not just tasty but healthy.
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Among the world of insects, caterpillars seem like models of chill.
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Despite the dangers, monarch caterpillars are completely dependent on toxic milkweed.
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Any number of things might have killed those caterpillars last year.
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That would certainly be easier than dealing with millions of wriggly caterpillars.
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But not everyone likes the idea of eating beetles, caterpillars or crickets.
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As a reminder, caterpillars are the larval stage of butterflies and moths.
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Most of the caterpillars in Saskatchewan should be gone by mid-June.
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Let's talk about this video of caterpillars walking in absurd single-file.
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The US also allows worms and caterpillars in food products within limits.
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Faraway farms raise the caterpillars until they pupate, or become a chrysalis.
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Even with their bright yellow stripes, monarch caterpillars are skilled at camouflage.
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How might tiny herbivores like caterpillars take to an increasingly lush Arctic?
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Caterpillars could never stay the same, and I hated butterflies for it.
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Caterpie, for example, is based on caterpillars and evolves into a butterfly.
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The infected caterpillars climb because the baculovirus affects how they respond to light.
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Cordyceps is created when a parasitic fungus infects caterpillars living in the soil.
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Multiply that by millions of caterpillars and they can do some serious damage.
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So for now, we'll have to be satisfied with light-up robot caterpillars.
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My relatives are not impressed with these caterpillars either — so I feel ya.
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Lifting these restrictions would lead to fewer hungry caterpillars and fewer hungry people.
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Beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts and crickets are the most popular.
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If you were to describe caterpillars in a word, it would be hungry.
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Scientists have found the waxworm caterpillars have gut microbes that degrade plastic compounds.
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You were inspired by the movements of jellyfish and caterpillars and other animals?
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In summer, excessive heat stresses developing caterpillars already vulnerable to diseases and predators.
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There are faces, flowers and face-flowers, cell-like bubbles and amoeboid caterpillars.
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And pesticide drift can poison caterpillars even when they aren't the targeted pest.
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A strange thing is happening to caterpillars in the the English countryside: they're exploding.
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The virus makes the caterpillars climb to the top of plants, toward the sun.
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Hordes of gypsy moth caterpillars are currently ravaging parts of the Northeastern United States.
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Dry weather tends to holds back pathogens that normally keep the caterpillars in check.
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We haven't yet been able to edit eggplant for resistance to caterpillars, for example.
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It hatched and out crawled one of children's book author Eric Carle's classic caterpillars.
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They look like curled up caterpillars or large coiled telephone cords made of cotton.
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Cultures, like caterpillars, crawl forward in contradictions, drawing back and then suddenly springing forward.
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We could love the wasp for eating the caterpillars that eat the tomato plants.
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In the morning I found a hole in the net and three caterpillars missing.
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"They said, 'We're all caterpillars right now,' " recalls Guy, who had gone with his brother.
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At /r/pokemon, I block pictures of, say, caterpillars, because those aren't Pokémon, are they?
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It would threaten butterflies, the plants they pollinate, and the many songbirds that eat caterpillars.
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Group costumes, like human caterpillars or Santa leading his team of reindeer, are also popular.
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And like desperate characters in a cartoon island mirage, fellow caterpillars became appealing steak dinners.
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She was livid, but I was elated when the home soon became infested with caterpillars.
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Usually the caterpillars are deep in the moss and undergrowth—away from birds and other predators.
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THE VIALS are small and twisted, resembling worms or caterpillars; inside them, a liquid glows pink.
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After that the caterpillars will be too large to be affected by our preferred treatment product.
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Female D. xenomorph wasps generally insert their eggs into Australian moth caterpillars known as Antipterna euanthes.
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In this year, a lot of fruit grew and was completely destroyed by caterpillars or rats.
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Forest tent caterpillars have been an issue in parts of Saskatchewan for the past three years.
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When caterpillars eat tomato plants, it seems that the plants release this chemical as a signal.
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In subsequent tests, the researchers ground the caterpillars into a paste, smearing it onto the plastic.
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Be mesmerised by these creepy crawly caterpillars following each other in perfect formation, in Australia's Perth.
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If there's one thing these waxworm caterpillars love, it's a tiny mouthful of chewy, delicious plastic.
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With permission, Wong was able to source an initial group of 20 caterpillars from private residences.
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Living in the moss were tardigrades, millimeter-long animals that resembled teddy bears crossed with caterpillars.
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The mulch makes a home for caterpillars and other creatures to camp out over the winter.
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There isn't much variation in how caterpillars behave, but humans have a breadth of possible behaviors.
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Others overwinter as eggs or caterpillars buried deep in the leaf litter beneath their host plants.
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Smaller-brained animals, like caterpillars and ants, are probably self-medicating as a matter of instinct.
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There were cherry trees here, but they were still bare, their furled leaves green as caterpillars.
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"God knows how many shipments of live caterpillars we already planned," the same representative told Hyperallergic.
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It's common for caterpillars to eat each other when they're stressed out by the lack of food.
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Scientists sprayed tomato plants with methyl jasmonate to kick off these responses, then unleashed caterpillars on them.
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In their next stage of life the caterpillars provide food for the ants in exchange for protection.
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Fortunately, as NBC notes, the caterpillars will be heading into their cocoons in the next few weeks.
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And yes, your two-year-old will probably go ga-ga over this live cup of caterpillars.
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Anyone can wander into the forest—or, indeed, to the airport—and gather caterpillars, ants and grasshoppers.
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The Bradford pear may not nourish 19 species of native caterpillars, but it seems to support one.
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The scientists wondered how a plant's defense system would affect the caterpillars if they combined these behaviors.
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We would catch caterpillars – scorpions – we were really adventurous kids and my sisters were there the whole time.
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He is some kind of foreigner, with a huge nose, eyebrows like hairy caterpillars and ridiculously plain clothes.
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In some encounters with herbivores, it winds up relatively unscathed, while the caterpillars wind up eating each other.
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Living in a pile of moss were tardigrades, millimeter-long animals that resembled teddy bears crossed with caterpillars.
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The coats that are quilted into fleshy segments like caterpillars, the coats that come down past the knee.
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Milkweeds are native to North America, and famous there as host of the caterpillars of the monarch butterfly.
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And because the caterpillars tend to stick to deciduous trees, farmers don't have to worry about their crops.
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What I Love 11 Photos View Slide Show ' There are caterpillars crawling around the apartment of Jonathan Rockefeller.
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Swallowtail caterpillars are quite interesting in their own right, feeding voraciously until they reach about two inches long.
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One issue could be how to handle the toxic substance the caterpillars excrete when they are fed plastic.
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THE KAWAKAWA LEAVES are dark as jade and riddled with holes, the telltale bites of looper moth caterpillars.
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I can cultivate the host plants of butterflies, knowing that some of their caterpillars will feed baby birds.
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Last year few of my mail-order caterpillars formed a chrysalis and none survived to become a butterfly.
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After hatching, the caterpillars drop to the ground, and use "honey" glands to lure unsuspecting foraging red ants.
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It was not until his late 20s that he discovered Krefeld's entomological society and started learning about caterpillars.
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" "We're the only children of billionaires as comfortable in D-10 Caterpillars as we are in our own cars.
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Nearly 2,000 species of insects are edible, with beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps, and ants the most popular world-over.
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Less caterpillars means less food for song birds which also time their eggs to hatch at peak caterpillar densities.
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Lifting existing bans on GM crops on the continent would lead to fewer hungry caterpillars and fewer hungry people.
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Pied flycatchers initially had difficulty adjusting, but over time have started laying their eggs earlier to grab the caterpillars.
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I'm struck by the image of those giant windows and seeing the Caterpillars pushing around those mounds of dirt.
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Other seemingly unintelligent creatures, including ants, caterpillars and slime mould can, by trial and error, create surprisingly efficient routes.
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Recommended for children 8 and older, her program will include a guided walk to look for monarchs and caterpillars.
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Caterpillars, aphids and slugs slimed and crawled their way around the mustard plants, slicing, sucking and chewing up leaves.
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It was a radiant green, because it had just been eating a meal of marine ferns and sea caterpillars.
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As levels of the chemical declined, there were more caterpillars left over in the container and increasingly damaged leaves.
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When Wong first started bringing caterpillars to the botanical garden, he'd only transport a few hundred at a time.
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In the wild, less than 10 percent of monarch caterpillars survive to adulthood, even when environmental conditions are ideal.
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Monarch caterpillars are never targeted, in fact, because monarchs are important pollinators that don't eat crops or damage gardens.
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The caterpillars thrive on the plant, even storing its toxins in their bodies as a defense against hungry birds.
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The beneficial lacewings that eat the aphids that eat squash and cucumbers are just as voracious for monarch caterpillars.
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Psychedelics are not for everyone, especially not little kids who are terrified by smoking caterpillars and repeated threats of decapitation.
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The pesticide used, Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki, is actually a bacteria that is toxic to caterpillars, but not to other species.
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After around eight days, the caterpillars had pretty much all eaten each other, regardless of which plant they started on.
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"All our soldiers countrywide are trying to help clear these caterpillars off farms," Rwandan army spokesman, René Ngendahimana, told Reuters.
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From coagulated blood, to caterpillars, sheep brains, tuna eyes, or baboon hands: somewhere it's a treat; elsewhere it's stomach-churning.
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Intacta2 Xtend is the successor of Monsanto's Intacta RR2 Pro, which resists caterpillars and glyphosate, but not dicamba-based products.
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According to Maori herbal medicine, the more holes, the better — because caterpillars choose only the finest leaves to feast on.
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Females lay their eggs on the plants, and the caterpillars eat as much as they can before forming a chrysalis.
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The caterpillars munched the plants with no extra defenses down to bare sticks before turning on one another for nourishment.
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After a little over two weeks, the eggs hatch tiny blue caterpillars, themselves only the size of a grain of rice.
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The armyworms are caterpillars that "march" across the landscape in large groups feasting on young plants, leaving devastation in their wake.
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There's a guy walking around with two huge caterpillars (like, six inches long) and biologists running around with specimens in water.
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Armyworm moths lay eggs in maize plants and the caterpillars have also been known to march en masse across the landscape.
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I know Caterpillars managed to earn enough that they could offset the fact that they have to raise prices -- HANNITY: Wait.
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The armyworms are caterpillars that "march" across the landscape in large groups feasting on young maize plants, wiping out entire fields.
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It may seem unpalatable to some, but creepy crawlies such as crickets, caterpillars and silkworms could be the future of food.
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The caterpillars are bad for horses, however; when mares eat them, they can cause the abortion of late-term foal fetuses.
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Their caterpillars eat only milkweed, which was once ubiquitous along American roadsides and in the margins between fields on small farms.
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There are now about 200 restaurants across the country that feature insects on the menu — from grubs to caterpillars to crickets.
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Certain caterpillars will, when infected by parasitic flies, eat poisonous plants, killing or arresting the growth of the larvae within them.
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Think of caterpillars not as the enemy of the tomato vine but as food for the mockingbird, whose babies are hungry.
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Rising above this maelstrom are hordes of gypsy moth caterpillars, whose literal and symbolic drone is the song of the summer.
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Judging by the job they had done on her bag, Dr Bertocchini suspected wax-moth caterpillars would perform much better than that.
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Meanwhile, British officials are warning Londoners about an invasion of toxic caterpillars whose hairs can cause illness and even death in humans.
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Households in Kinshasa, the country's sprawling capital, consume about 300 grams of caterpillars (about 80, if they are averagely juicy) a week.
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An M.C. known as Mr. Woolly Worm will kick off the race wearing a pink and yellow suit infested with fake caterpillars.
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Remember it's not just the adult butterfly you want to provide for with a nectar-rich plant, but its caterpillars as well.
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The dead body then explosively releases a cloud of spores, potentially killing many more caterpillars and heading off damage to tree leaves.
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They also knew that caterpillars, which eat the leaves of tomato plants, will turn on one another when the going gets tough.
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But faced with the well-defended plants sprayed with lots of methyl jasmonate, the caterpillars gave up on the tomato leaves early.
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Once at the end of a branch, the caterpillar explodes when the baculovirus bursts out of its skin, looking to infect caterpillars below.
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He added some potential caveats, too: mainly, caterpillars may move on to other types of plants if the tomato plants become less nutritious.
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This picture is of an Edith's checkerspot butterfly laying her eggs on some blue-eyed Mary, the plant usually eaten by its caterpillars.
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In the fields, we found frogs burrowed under dead pumpkin patches, but in the kitchen we found caterpillars squirming betwixt bales of spinach.
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The plant is the only host for their eggs and sole sustenance for the caterpillars, which feed on milky secretions from the leaves.
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It was accidentally introduced from France in 1869 and its feeding is more threatening to trees than native tent caterpillars, which it resembles.
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The praying mantises thrived even if they didn't save my broccoli plants, and all my mail-order caterpillars died before they became butterflies.
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Passing street-hawkers pause at the tables to offer everything from fried plantain to cigarettes, chewing gum, roasted caterpillars and plywood chess boards.
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Cane rats, hammer-headed bats, monkeys, and small bucks — all smoked and trussed — crowded the bushmeat stalls alongside edible caterpillars and dried fish.
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Some of the tiny buggies were designed to resemble real cars, while others took inspiration from the movement patterns of caterpillars or windmills.
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The fluffy celosia petals cascade into negative space, giving the arrangement a haphazard, spiky look — almost like a Jackson Pollock painting, or fuzzy caterpillars.
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So, unfortunately, the application now is over for this year and the current caterpillars are here to stay until the end of their lifecycle.
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It is caterpillars that damage crops, so the plan to release adult males that produce unviable offspring should not cause any additional crop damage.
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Image: Federica Bertocchini, Paolo Bombelli, and Chris HoweIn experiments, the researchers exposed 100 caterpillars to a plastic polyethylene bag obtained at a UK supermarket.
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The last mass influx took place in 2009 when around 11 million Painted Ladies arrived in the UK, where their caterpillars feed on thistles.
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The moths lay eggs in maize plants and the caterpillars have also been known to march en masse across the landscape - hence the name.
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To make it even more likely, the larvae look like maggots or caterpillars, with their rhythmic movements bound to attract the attention of birds.
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The caterpillars' hairs, which can be released as a defense mechanism or carried by the wind, contain thaumetopoein, an irritating protein, the commission said.
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Mothers outsource parenting by laying their eggs in the nests of smaller birds, and the birds live on grubs, caterpillars and similar soft morsels.
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Instead, it was a massive dome where attendees could see giant neon caterpillars, alien landings, and geometric shapes pulsing through the cosmos—no hallucinogens required.
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"Winter moth caterpillars need to hatch out of their eggs when the oak leaves are fresh and tender and lacking in tannins," he told Gizmodo.
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Though birds don't eat the forest tent caterpillars, the Sarcophaga aldrichi population, commonly known as the friendly fly, often swells along with a caterpillar infestation.
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Willcock: Lico was covered in caterpillars and absolutely covered in spiders as well… Almost every tree was connected to another tree by a spider's web.
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Upon returning to Europe from their African wintering grounds, the flycatchers time their egg-laying to the short period when juicy caterpillars are most abundant.
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They look like aliens or villains from some 1950s horror movie or something, but they're all caterpillars you can literally find in the United States.
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In a background embroidered by fuzzy caterpillars of 1980s jewels tones, the sole figurative element is a PBR sign, lit up above her right shoulder.
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Ideally, this means that they will apply Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki, a bacterium that kills caterpillars but that doesn't kill other insects or damage surrounding vegetation.
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Trilobites Tardigrades, eight-legged microscopic animals that resemble obese caterpillars, can survive temperatures close to absolute zero and live after being baked at 300 degrees.
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Ants, tent caterpillars, bees and wasps — a wildly prolific subset of insects, whose collective biomass far outweighs that of humans — live in highly interdependent colonies.
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They shift their nesting time for a different reason: to sync with food availability, like an early appearance of plump caterpillars or swarms of insects.
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In another test, older caterpillars with covered eyes were given a choice of dowel colors, and reliably climbed onto the one that they already matched.
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The armyworm moths lay eggs in maize plants and the caterpillars have also been known to march en masse across the landscape - hence the name.
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In another test, older caterpillars with covered eyes were given a choice of dowel colors, and reliably climbed onto the one that they already matched.
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Compared to an untreated plant, a high-dose plant had five times as much plant left behind because the caterpillars were turning on each other instead.
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The female D. xenomorph inserts dozens of tiny eggs into the caterpillars and after they hatch, the begin to eat the host body from the inside.
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Trees there showed signs of damage by pod borers, caterpillars and mirids, while black pod, a fungal disease that rots cocoa before it ripens, was widespread.
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Bertocchini is a part-time beekeeper, and is used to removing wax worms from her hives, where the caterpillars like to munch on the beeswax inside.
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Years after we leave school, even when we convince ourselves that we've transformed from awkward caterpillars to graceful butterflies, the effects of those years can linger.
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Everything seemed larger than normal — tree leaves were the size of dinner plates and caterpillars looked like they had swollen to several times their normal size.
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Caterpillars of the oak processionary moth were spotted emerging from eggs in mid-April, according to the Forestry Commission, which oversees forests in England and Scotland.
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There was a whole lot of narrative hooey to explain the theme, which mostly had to do with caterpillars becoming butterflies, girls becoming women, et cetera.
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For one thing, it has not been established whether the caterpillars gain nutritional value from the plastics they eat, as well as being able to digest them.
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How it works: Tomato plants were exposed to an airborne chemical, methyl jasmonate (MeJA), that caused them to release toxins that decreased their nutritional value for caterpillars.
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Hundreds of lab-bred butterflies and caterpillars were released in Biscayne National Park, and several years later, researchers say those populations have significantly increased and appear sustainable.
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The tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) can be abundant wherever deciduous woods include red maple, black cherry, spicebush, sassafras, tulip poplar or other suitable foods for its caterpillars.
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Given leaves with higher levels of the chemical, the researchers found that after a period of time there were less caterpillars left over and relatively unscathed leaves.
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Deciding to jump-start the whole process, I finally ordered a dozen caterpillars from a teacher-supply catalog and jury-rigged an enclosure over the milkweed bed.
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I've tried pencils, I've tried powders, but nothing has managed to make my brows look like anything other than two anemic caterpillars slopped lazily above my eyes.
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Right away, he flew for another 190 miles until he reached an area where recent rains would have brought a proliferation of caterpillars and grubs to eat.
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It then develops a small brown stem from the desiccated body, poking out of the ground and eventually releasing spores that caterpillars eat, restarting the parasitic process.
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And good for you if you acquire a taste for mopane caterpillars, because the same serving will get you near four times the recommended amount of iron.
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The team also used a rather analog method to make sure it was an actual chemical process helping the caterpillars get rid of the plastic, and not just some voracious, bag-centric appetite: "To confirm it wasn't just the chewing mechanism of the caterpillars degrading the plastic, the team mashed up some of the worms and smeared them on polyethylene bags, with similar results," a summary of the study reads.
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Plants can do something beyond the abilities of mere cats*, dogs, and birds: they secrete a chemical that makes the caterpillars that eat them eat each other instead.
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But if healthy caterpillars are eating sick ones, it begs a question: will the species succumb to the disease, or will fewer hosts help the population to prevail?
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We're always on the prowl for the next best pencil, pomade, or hack that will turn our lackluster caterpillars into a next-level Cara Delevingne-Brooke Shields set.
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On closer examination, Dr Bertocchini and her colleagues discovered that their caterpillars each ate an average of 2.2 holes, three millimetres across, every hour, in the plastic film.
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The hungry caterpillars will disappear soon, forming cocoons, where they will live for five-to-10 days before emerging as beautiful… well… just as furry orangish-brown moths.
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So, somewhere near the end of July, residents of Saskatchewan can look forward to the caterpillars dying off and a week-long plague of moths descending upon them.
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This means that for most people, the caterpillars are just annoying — and those who aren't happy with having furry homes have to deal with them on their own.
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Mrs Lukambala says she knows which caterpillars to pick because her family has gathered them for generations (the safe kind have red heads and fall out of trees).
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By day, traders peddled everything from fresh-farm produce and juicy caterpillars – a local delicacy - to oriental carpets and spare car parts, at the country's best-stocked market.
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There are shots of crowds moving, always moving, and of newfangled conveyances like moving sidewalks and moving chairs, which look like blue-black caterpillars inching toward the camera.
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Those "growth media" include cell lines originally derived — often decades ago — from monkey or dog kidneys, moth caterpillars, calf blood, or the immature tissues of aborted human fetuses.
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Around the world, more than 2 billion people currently feast on 6- and 16-legged creepy-crawly creatures, supplementing their diets with caterpillars, grasshoppers, cicadas, wasps, and beetles.
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Grass-dwelling caterpillars deliver the fungus when they migrate, arriving as early as summer, after which the fungus lays dormant in its host through the frigid winter months.
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Per the New York Times, UK forestry officials are warning that oak processionary moth caterpillars have been sighted emerging from eggs in and near the city since mid-April.
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MOM WARNS ON VENOMOUS CATERPILLARS AFTER SON&aposS HARROWING MEDICAL SCARE Jessica said that her nipple turned black and was crusting over, and that she could smell the infection.
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" &aposALIEN&apos WASPS LAY EGGS INSIDE CATERPILLARS THAT BURST THROUGH THEM The researchers added "that the presence of a vertical e-field elicits ballooning behavior and takeoff in spiders.
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A 2008 study from the University of Virginia found that three-year-olds were able to identify snakes hidden in pictures faster than other animals, like frogs and caterpillars.
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Instead, he supposes that the chemical is a signal to tell plants to alter their nutrient content somehow, so that the other caterpillars seem like a smarter food choice.
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An agronomist who advises farmers in San Pedro region told Reuters about 200 hectares are already affected by caterpillars eating cocoa pods and leaves in the world's biggest producer.
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Trilobites This weekend, 25 vertical racing lanes will hang along a sun-drenched stage in Banner Elk, N.C., awaiting their athletes — thousands of fuzzy, brown and black banded caterpillars.
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"Officers were alerted to video that displayed presidential candidate Jill Stein painting the front of one of the Caterpillars with the message 'I approve this message,' " the affidavit said.
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The birds "need a lot of fat and protein, and caterpillars are a major source of that," said John Rowden, director of community conservation for the National Audubon Society.
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If you can get there before hordes of sphinx moth caterpillars eat the blossoms, the Theodore Payne Foundation's weekly wildflower report can help you figure out where to go.
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The worms — of the phylum Onychophora, they are cousins of arthropods and somewhat resemble caterpillars — have a "beautiful blue velvety texture" and "cute little stubby antennae," Dr. Latty said.
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The world is dark and postures are slumped as people trudge around in floor-length puffer coats, hunching inward for warmth like a dreary colony of sun-starved caterpillars.
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"Mirid bugs and caterpillars are growing in numbers, and without treatment, they are destroying our crops," said Maturin Ebini Kouadio, who farms in Soubre, the heart of the cocoa belt.
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But when, a few hours later, she got around to looking at her captives she found the bag was full of holes and the caterpillars were roaming around her house.
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WARMING PLATEAU Grass-dwelling caterpillars deliver the fungus when they migrate, arriving as early as summer, after which the fungus lays dormant in its host through the frigid winter months.
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So far seems this like a good investment for the ants—until the caterpillars become butterflies which feed on the nectar that pools at the tops of these bamboo shoots.
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The new seed can also protect the crop against most species of Spodoptera caterpillars, Monsanto said, adding that it plans to start selling the new technology in Brazil in 2020.
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Scientists used to scratch their heads about what caused the extinction that ended the age of dinosaurs — theories ranged from low dino sex drives to a world overrun by caterpillars.
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Some 20173,100 insect species worldwide have been identified as edible, from leafhoppers and water boatmen to stink bugs and agave worms; the most popular globally are beetles, followed by caterpillars.
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They pocket several caterpillars — a local delicacy — and point upward to a bees' nest swollen with honey, before slashing another tree's bark to release soaplike sap and wash their hands.
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Looking at ants under a magnifying glass doesn't have anything on this macro vision of caterpillars, spiders, and dragonflies bathed in effervescent dew drops animated by CGI wunderkind Alexey Zakharov.
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Its leaves are also a food source for caterpillars as well as the perfect spot for eggs to hatch, ensuring you'll have butterflies not just now, but in the future, too.
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Click here to view original GIFOne of the wildest things that happens in nature is caterpillars go to sleep one day and then transform into a damn butterfly after a month.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Caterpillars are eating into cocoa crops in coastal regions of Ivory Coast, threatening what so far has been a promising April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.
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In an effort to increase yields, the Inter-professional Cotton Association of Burkina (AICB) began introducing Monsanto's Bollgard II trait into Burkinabe cotton varieties beginning in 2009 as protection against caterpillars.
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In middle school, a boy I liked told me my bushy unibrow looked like caterpillars on my face, so I asked my mother to take me to get my brows waxed.
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They're not cheap, but they're not truffle money or as dear as Yartsa Gunbu, an edible fungus that grows in mummified caterpillars (obviously, click on that link at your own risk).
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Aristotle believed the courage of animals corresponds to the heat of their blood; European scientists contended that frogs hatch from wet clay, caterpillars from cabbage and eels from drops of dew.
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"The plant rearranges the menu for the caterpillar and makes other caterpillars the optimal choice," said John Orrock, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Wisconsin — Madison who led the study.
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When they put wax-moth caterpillars onto the sort of film it had taken Nocardia asteroides half a year to deal with, they found that holes appeared in it within 40 minutes.
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Take Sophia's, which I'm quoting from "Engaging for a Good Cause: Sophia's Story and Why #BugsR4Girls:" My favorite bugs are snails, slugs, and caterpillars, but my favorite one of all is grasshoppers.
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But as a new study published in Current Biology shows, these caterpillars are not just capable of breaking down beeswax, they can also break down plastic—and that's probably not a coincidence.
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While removing the parasitic pests from the honeycombs in her beehives, she noticed that the plastic bags she used to store the caterpillars became riddled with holes in less than an hour.
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Caution: The cannibalistic caterpillars may be more fit than non-cannibals but it's important to avoid "encouraging super-pests" by allowing the weaker insects to be killed off by larger, stronger ones.
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Sadly, the following five selections might not include reality folding in upon itself or Chiwetel Ejiofor's soulful gaze, but there are hookah-smoking cosmic caterpillars, magical cures for cancer, and naked superheroes.
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Morley hopes to expand on this finding by studying other ballooning insects, like caterpillars and spider-mites, which can shed light on the incredible journeys and global distribution of these tiny fliers.
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Dr. Brower, his wife said, was always happy to talk to elementary school children about caterpillars and butterflies, and was also the kind of scholar who brought his work home with him.
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The Intacta2 Xtend product is engineered to resist weed killers containing dicamba, building on resistances to glyphosate and certain species of parasitic Spodoptera caterpillars featured in the older version, Intacta RR2 Pro.
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Now our dayswill be out of doors, insteadof inside them; our future will liewith petals, caterpillars, well-dressed moss, hypnotic snails, clappingorange frogs that know to climbwhich tree for the ripest alligatorpear.
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In addition to the mountain lion project, Conservation Canines works with dogs that sniff orca poop from a nautical mile away and mutts that find caterpillars by seeking out their tiny droppings.
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In a phone call from his office in Regina, Glen Longpre, the manager of landscape protection for Saskatchewan Parks, explained that the caterpillars are native to the Prairies and pose no real danger.
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But the caterpillars on the plants sprayed with more of the chemical decided to eat each other way sooner, and there was about five times more tomato plant remaining, according to the study.
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Ana Comoana, the spokeswoman, said more than 41,000 hectares of crops in Mozambique, a tropical African nation with a huge Indian Ocean coastline, had been affected by pests including caterpillars and fruit flies.
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Influenced by nature, Dutch artist Marjolein Dallinga uses felt as her primary medium, creating strange structures like toadstools, caterpillars, and spore-ridden, plant-like structures that appear lifelike when placed in natural environments.
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The provinces of Limpopo and North West in the north of South Africa were most affected by the caterpillars, which spread southward from neighboring countries after first being detected in Nigeria last year.
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Glancing down, I saw thousands of tiny green leaf fragments on the forest floor and realized the rain was droppings and table scraps from countless caterpillars munching the newly emerged canopy far above.
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When parasitic wasps get a whiff of a certain odor profile, for example, they fly to the besieged plant and are gifted with caterpillars that they can inject their eggs into and zombify.
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"We found that waxworm caterpillars are endowed with gut microbes that are essential in the plastic biodegradation process, " said Christophe LeMoine, an associate professor and chair of biology at Brandon University in Canada.
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Along her collarbone, and from her shoulder blades to the backs of her hands, she is tattooed in faded geometric patterns of snakeskin, python and caterpillars, Kalinga symbols of protection, strength and guidance.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Crop-destroying caterpillars known as armyworms have ravaged 63,000 hectares of maize in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo since December, causing local maize prices to triple, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Flemish painter Jan Van Kessel is known for his still lifes, making this surrealist natural history study—in which he contorted snakes, spiders, and caterpillars to spell out his name—totally out of character.
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In Lauschangriff, a tram ride (on which one feels like an otter made of caterpillars) from P'Berg to Friedrichschain, we sink in to lush chairs and order absinthe from a bar conspicuously lacking it.
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It sticks its head into the swarming mass to tweeze out wriggling caterpillars one at a time and, after scraping them against a branch to remove some of the irritating hairs, swallows them whole.
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So the women are stocking up on items they can sell for a profit when we arrive in a day or two: tomatoes, oranges, passion fruit, boiled peanuts and, just this morning, roasted caterpillars.
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During butterfly season, the main rutted track into the forest from Yangambi village becomes a commuter artery, everyone in search of something: children collecting edible caterpillars, women foraging for greens, men hunting for bushmeat.
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Caterpillars hatch in April, but will starve if they don't grow large enough before the onset of the summer drought, when the seasonal plants they depend on — including dwarf plantain and Indian paintbrush — die.
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The rain caused plants to thrive, giving the painted lady caterpillars plenty of food to fuel their transformation, said Arthur M. Shapiro, a professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis.
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Passion vines, beloved by some butterflies as food for their caterpillars, have yellow spots on their leaves that make them look as if they have already had an egg-laying visit from a gravid female.
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KIGALI, April 21 (Reuters) - Rwanda said on Friday crop-devouring caterpillars known as fall army worms had damaged 17 percent of its maize crop and the military had joined the fight to halt their spread.
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Whatever the scientific processes that explain its transformation, I find it miraculous that these creatures begin as eggs, are born caterpillars, go into the chrysalis, experience the metamorphosis, and emerge changed with their beautiful wings.
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British forestry officials are warning parts of London about an invasion of caterpillars whose long white hairs can trigger allergic reactions in humans that include skin and eye irritation, difficulty breathing and even anaphylactic shock.
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