THE LIFE OF A PARASITOID FLY
(Make sure you get to the time-lapse in this video!) There is so much diversity and intrigue to be discovered just beneath the surface of...
HATCHLING CATERPILLARS!
Maybe this won't be as popular a video as those of fluffy puppies and kittens. But we think these little guys are pretty cute. There are...
livestock season opens!
And the 2017 livestock season opens with a simple row of small vials. On this warm and foggy March 1st night I walked up the road and...
A PARASITOID EPIC
(Warning: watching this video may cause uncomfortable squirminess and spine-tingling shivers) To balance out our latest video post of a...
Petal Dress Up
Camouflaged Looper, Synchlora aerata, plays dress up and then has a snack at a Caterpillar Lab show. Made this little film from one of...
Introducing Slug Caterpillars
A Menagerie of Slug Caterpillars at The Caterpillar Lab. These backyard gems look as if they would be more at home in some exotic...
Cecropia giant silk moth caterpillar sheds its skin
A cecropia giant silk moth caterpillar sheds its skin and becomes a living, wiggling, pupa. Comment about a time that you witnessed this...
Caterpillar Trading Cards
Well, this is one way to collect a complete set of trading cards... make them ourselves! Very excited looking over our first proof of all...
Eastern Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma americana
COMMENT CHALLENGE: Many will know the Eastern Tent Caterpillar as a pesky, hungry, scourge of backyard cherry and apple trees. But there...
Pygmy Leafminer
Pygmy Leafminer, Stigmella quercipulchella, eating its way through a late season oak leaf and then emerging at The Caterpillar Lab. Time...
