I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...
Caterpillars start out as tiny creatures. In the beginning they eat lots of food — just like the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” — and get bigger and bigger. Eventually the caterpillar will be ...
"How do caterpillars make cocoons?" asked a preschooler at the Libertyville Recreation Department Kinder Korner Preschool program. Moths and butterflies are similar in many ways, but their path to ...
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A Jeremy Hemberger, department of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Caterpillars start out as tiny creatures. In the beginning they eat lots of food — just like the book “The Very ...