After grabbing a victim, the mantis starts nibbling at it, chews open a hole, and lets the guts fall away. Around 40 percent of the caterpillar goes to waste. Chinese mantis guts a monarch ...

If human guts are like a rainforest in terms of microbial abundance, Hammer said, caterpillar guts are like a desert. Most of the microbial DNA the scientists did find inside the caterpillars matched ...

So to figure out the insects’ secret, researchers fed polyethylene to the larvae of pantry moths, Plodia interpunctella, and then looked at the bacteria in the caterpillars’ guts. Caterpillars ...

If human guts are like a rainforest in terms of microbial abundance, Hammer said, caterpillar guts are like a desert. Most of the microbial DNA the scientists did find inside the caterpillars ...