Be on the lookout for a bug that resembles Cousin Itt. It may seem harmless but it can do real damage if you’re bitten.

Beware of the processionary caterpillars. These creatures may look harmless, but they pose a serious threat to our pets and ...

A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy.

A newly hatched hummingbird with a unique appearance has been discovered in a national park in Panama. This tiny hummingbird ...

The South Americans hummingbird chicks try to disguise themselves as caterpillar to throw off predators. The post How ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...

The Eastern tent caterpillar gained notoriety in Central Kentucky during the early 2000s when its accidental ingestion by pregnant mares was linked to thousands of cases of Mare ...

A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be ...

Down its back, the White-necked Jacobins had long, fluffy down feathers that made them look like a dangerous caterpillar, as per the press release. Described as a natural “mimicry,” the White ...

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten. When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin ...

The Eastern tent caterpillar (ETC) gained notoriety in Central Kentucky during the early 2000s when its accidental ingestion by pregnant mares was linked to thousands of cases of Mare Reproductive ...

It turns out the hummingbird might fend off predators by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar that lives in the same region. In a new paper published March 17 in Ecology, Taylor, associate professor ...