Cecropia Caterpillar Spins its Cocoon
Last night we made our first attempt to capture a time-lapse of our largest native caterpillar here in New Hampshire spinning its...
CATERPILLAR OF THE WEEK PART II: Pistol Casebearer (Coleophora species)
Our pistol casebearers (Coleophora species) are more than just a pretty shell. Most of the time they appear as an unmoving growth on a...
Hatching Buck Moth Caterpillars!
Yesterday during open hours at The Caterpillar Lab one of our overwintered New England Buck Moth (Hemileuca lucina) egg masses began to...
Today at The Caterpillar Lab....
Today at The Caterpillar Lab Orgyia tussock caterpillars hatched and wandered across the tattered remains of their own mother's life...
Follow-the-leader
Eastern tent caterpillars playing a nightmarish game of follow-the-leader: Tent caterpillars are one of our favorite springtime species...
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...
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...
