Examples of caterpillar in a Sentence
Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2024
By mid-month, most Tussock moth caterpillars will be in cocoons.
—Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
The cups can be linked to make a caterpillar or built into a tall tower, providing children with hours of water fun at a super affordable price.
—Christin Perry, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
The pace of change can cause the seasonal cycles of plants and the creatures that depend on them, such as caterpillars and bees, to get out of sync.
—Harry Stevens, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
The parasite in question is reminiscent of Alien, invading ghost moth caterpillars and taking over their brains until stroma blasts out of their heads and sticks up from the soil.
—Longreads, 8 Sep. 2023
Spared from birds, caterpillars chomped on twice as many oak leaves as normal—and the chain of effects went on and on.
—Celia Ford, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
The work includes monitoring greenhouse temperatures and humidity, growing and picking food for the caterpillars each day, and early in the year, watching for when the caterpillars awake from diapause.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 28 Feb. 2024
The monarch’s black, white and yellow ringed caterpillars also eat common milkweed leaves, then form jewel-like chrysalides, which hang from those leaves.
—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
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Middle English catyrpel "caterpillar," from an early French dialect word catepelose "caterpillar," literally, "hairy cat," from cate "female cat" and pelose "hairy," derived from Latin pilus "hair" — related to pile entry 5
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