Lynda / Flickr / CC BY 2.0. Come spring, female monarchs begin laying their eggs exclusively on milkweed plants. Once hatched, these strikingly striped orange, black, and white caterpillars devour ...

Young caterpillars are greenish yellow with eight orange stripes that run the length of their bodies. As the caterpillars grow, they become black and the orange stripes become more evident.

Question: My oak tree is being eaten by hundreds of orange and black caterpillars. They also are leaving residue all over my deck. How can I get rid of them?

Caterpillars can do some damage, but your orange tree will recover. Since caterpillars eat only one or a few types of plants, ... It has a black body with gold diagonal stripes on each wing. Q.

The great orange tip caterpillar lifts its head in a snake pose like it is planning to attack. The markings on the great orange tip caterpillar are snake-like as well, with a red stripe down its ...

There’s also an old myth that striped woolly bear caterpillars—a particular species with orange and black stripes—can predict the severity of a winter. As the tale goes, if you see them in ...

Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and emerge as large orange-and-black butterflies. Monarch's multigenerational migration ...