Winter is passed as a small caterpillar.
They also eat fruit tree spider mites and small caterpillars.
"When a small caterpillar or other pest chomps on such a plant," he said, "it will simply get sick and die."
After they hatch, the small caterpillars only eat the tissue (parenchyma) between the veins of the leaves.
The first instar is a small, pearly white caterpillar with a prominent black head and dark grey legs.
The larvae are gray-white to brownish and resemble small caterpillars.
A small caterpillar had crawled into the cardboard box and was scuttling this way and that.
The fifth turned into a small yellow caterpillar and crawled away.
The larvae are yellow speckled with black and resemble small caterpillars.
Gunidah told her the light was created by small caterpillars called glowworms.