“We encourage gardeners to find a balance, and perhaps plant a few extra plants so the caterpillars can eat and so can you.” ...

Mr Tompkins said "like all caterpillars, they're ferocious eaters". He said the caterpillars eat the box plant and the damage they do also opened the plant up to infection. The UK's Royal ...

For many caterpillars, however, this immune response is not enough to kill off invaders determined to take over their bodies. Scientists think that by deliberately eating plants laced with toxic ...

Some species in Hawaii have knife-like claws on their front legs, instead of the short, stout claws usually used by caterpillars to cling to plants. These allow them to kill and eat passing flies and ...

For instance, a caterpillar eats plants, mice eat caterpillars and owls eat mice. There! A perfectly simple food chain. And we can see food chains happening underwater too. Algae is eaten by small ...