caterpillars

Leaves not the only things changing colors in the Blue Hills

By adamg - 10/13/10 - 7:01 am

Judy Leher Jacobs shows us one of the Heterocampa umbrata caterpillars that is changing colors now; you can find them in pink, green and orange.

Our ladybugs are vanishing - but our icky green caterpillars are multiplying

By adamg - 5/20/09 - 6:54 pm

Mish Michaels reports native New England ladybugs are vanishing under the onslaught of Asian and European imported ladybugs.

Jennifer Forman Orth reports we're now in peak season for winter-moth caterpillars, most of which are also imports.

Wooly bully

By adamg - 11/11/06 - 7:53 pm

wooly bear

Millennium Park was crawling with wooly-bear caterpillars today. Most seemed to be inching their way down the hill - wooly-bear convention down at the Charles? The fuzzywuzzy above? Its head was on the left, as you can see below:

Mitt Romney bugs him

By adamg - 7/5/06 - 8:23 pm

You know how you can tell Mitt Romney no longer spends much time in Massachusetts? He doesn't seem to notice how badly defoliated our trees are.