This is the caterpillar of an Io moth, a species of silk moth that so intrigues entomologist Andrei Sourakov that he’s endured a number of the larva’s bee-like stings while studying various specimens.

Beware - it's a jungle out there! That's good advice this time of year if you are pruning azaleas or cutting fronds from palm trees. Now's the season you are most likely to encounter two of Northeast ...

Decades ago, living with Florida’s many insects was a bit different than it is now. Getting gas in early summer also meant scraping the bodies of dozens of love bugs from your car’s bumper or ...

Four significant stinging caterpillars live in Florida: the saddleback caterpillar, puss caterpillar, io moth caterpillar and hag caterpillar. By the names of them, they sound pretty bad. They do not ...

said co-author Robert Guralnick, curator of biodiversity informatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History. To find out, the team devised a survey in which they collected moths from several sites ...