caterpillars
- plural of caterpillar.
Example Sentences
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Caterpillars respond defensively to electric fields similar to those emitted by their natural predators, scientists at the University of Bristol have found.
From Science Daily • May 24, 2024
Caterpillars can’t regulate their body temperatures, so they have to come up with a totally different strategy to make it through the coldest months of the year.
From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2023
Used only in Antarctica, the fuel is purchased and transported either via cargo plane or by Caterpillars that drive 1,100 miles from McMurdo, towing giant gut sacks of gas on giant sledges.
From Salon • May 29, 2023
Caterpillars become butterflies through a well-understood process called catastrophic metamorphosis, in which a small group of cells that were dormant in the larva multiply and diversify into the adult, leaving the dead larval body behind.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 16, 2023
Caterpillars, in all their strange and changeable glory, would play the starring role.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
