Caterpillars

Yes, monarch butterfly caterpillars eat milkweed, which makes them poisonous. Different types of caterpillars eat different types of plants. Even butterflies stick with one type of flower and won't drink nectar from any other species.

You should know this, but if you don't, butterflies lay eggs on leaves. They are so smart, they know where to put their eggs. If the butterflies doesn't know and puts it in a random leaf, that could be a problem.

A caterpillar can survive about a week without food. Even though it can survive this long, the caterpillar should get fresh food everyday in order for metamorphosis to occur successfully.

They are feeding on dill weed in my garden right now. They have also fed on parsley from my garden.

There are many, many different species of butterfly, so in order to provide some kind of answer let's consider only the Monarch butterfly.

Monarchs feed on milkweed, which contains a compound that is poisonous to most birds and mammals. The compound builds up in the caterpillar's body, making the caterpillar itself also poisonous. When metamorphosis occurs, the toxins remain, so the butterfly is also poisonous.

Over time, unless the butterfly continues to consume the toxins, they eventually become less poisonous. Also, toxin levels vary from species to species and variety to variety of milkweed; even different parts of the same individual plant may have different levels. So a given butterfly may be poisonous but another one of the same species may not be, depending on exactly what their diet was.

All monarch caterpillars look the same, whereas the adults have different abdomen shapes and the male butterflies have to black spots that the females lack. That's why we can distinguish the adult males from the adult females.

If you were to dissect monarch caterpillars, there would be at least one difference. The males have two bright red organs that the females lack, but there is no way of knowing which are male and which are female just by looking at the outside of the caterpillar.

Silk worms are harmless, although there are myths saying otherwise. They are myths, and shouldn't be taken seriously. Silk worms has no evidence of ever hurting Humans, or animals at that matter. Although silk worms are not dangerous to humans, other worms are. They are typically parasites that can live inside you for many reasons. They can actually kill you. I hope this Resolved your answer

Silkworms the caterpillar of the silk moths are white. They eat the leaves of mulberry trees.

When I went hiking with my dad near a waterfall, we sat upon some rocks. When I went up there to rest with my brother I saw a little white and black caterpillar. I didn't touch it because I didn't know if it was poisonous. Please try to find some information about it.

When I was in my backyard I found a white caterpillar with a black stripe in the middle I touched it and it stared itching like crazy so don't touch it

If I'm thinking correctly, the caterpillar you two are talking about is a Hickory Tussock Moth Caterpillar. It's hairs are poisonous, so don't touch them!! You will start to itch and have rashes come up. If this should happen, you should probably report to your hospital. I think they are very pretty, but you know the most beautiful things are also the most dangerous! Ha ha

I was putting up a fence in my back yard with my husband one day i was wearing shorts and all of a sudden i felt this really sharp picky things between my legs it hurt really bad i started screamming and then took off my shorts right in the yard and out fell a white and black Caterpillar i broke out in hives and it was so itchy i didn't go to the hospital i was fine i got in the shower washed where it had rubbed its hairs all over my upper thigh i have no idea how it got there but if you are doing yard work hiking or just playing in the back yard watch out for them the rash was gone the next day !

1. caterpillars have no wings

2. butterflys can fly

3. butterflys can lay eggs

4. caterpillars blood is green

5. butterflies pollenate flowers, where as, the caterpillars eat trees

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it can cost about $2 for 10 silkworms, or somewere around that price ;)

A black caterpillar with two white stripes on it's back stays in it's cristalis for 3 - 8 months so that the stripes grow bigger and move onto it's wings.

when the chrysails falls from a butterfly in gets horny so it will go crazy

The cocoon always comes first then the larva

This is an old saying which is probably British in Origin. It means that you can't make something if you don't have the supplies for it. Cows don't make silk, silkworms do. Similar to saying you can't squeeze water from a stone.

Introducing natural enemies, pruning, removing, and spraying are ways to eliminate caterpillars in the process of destroying trees. Attention must be paid to what is triggering the larval presence: absent or insufficient numbers of natural enemies; damaged, dead, diseased, dying woody plant parts; or inappropriate environment because of improper aeration or moisture, inadequate soil nutrients, incorrect soil pH levels. Removing caterpillars with glove-encased hands and unhealthy tree parts with trimmers and spraying with insecticides or water usually will solve minor problems.

The organisms that eat monarch butterflies are insects. Yes they are poisinous, but some organisms can handle the poisin in their system. Mostly the insects that eat the monarch butterfly is a wasp, stink bug, and more!

Most caterpillars form cacoons to turn into butterflies but if they have some sort of illness or are not able to form a cacoon they will not but their ultimate goal is to turn into butterflies.

Female moths stay in one place waiting for a male moth to fly to them to mate. The male moth dies shortly after they mate and the female dies shortly after laying her eggs.

They are larvae

Well, the caterpillar has an alkaline stomach so that he can digest cellulose and other leaf particles, and people have an acid stomach. In an acid stomach, the spores are killed, but in an alkaline stomach, the spores survive and put out a toxin. So, give the caterpillars a good dose of BT and let the caterpillars R.I.P.

They eat people and fungus They eat people and fungus

Butterflies can not bite people, they have probiscus's which means they have a long tongue which is used to drink liquids of nectar from flowers, so they have no jaws to bite people, nor do they have any stingers to inject venom, although few species of butterfly are poisonous to be eaten and their claws could scratch you very lightly. As a result, butterflies don't bite, so there is no remedy for a problem which doesn't exist.