Caterpillars Are Cool! Especially those that turn into moths

Feature photo of a Smeared Dagger Moth caterpillar.

To paraphrase Thoreau, I wish to speak a word for caterpillars, if only because so few defend or find them beautiful. Maybe their unpopularity, at least in North America, stems from the ravages of the LD Moth, Lymantia dispar (formerly known as the Gypsy Moth), whose larvae appear in their millions year after year to … Read more

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