How to Use caterpillar in a Sentence

caterpillar

noun

• The gypsy moth is the adult stage of one of the caterpillar species that threaten tree canopies.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Lawn caterpillars may return this month; treat as needed.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2018
• Fritillary caterpillars burrow in leaf litter at the base of their host plants.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2024
• Be prepared: Dill is a food source for swallowtail caterpillars.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 19 May 2018
• In the last two years, those caterpillars have attacked black and scarlet oak, birch, beech, and other deciduous trees.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
• There are several strategies to control these caterpillars on broccoli plants.
  — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2024
• These caterpillars will eat the foliage and defoliate a boxwood.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2024
• The caterpillars, which already grew slowly on the invasive plant, couldn't cope with the lower temperatures.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
• No real caterpillars were harmed in this segment, but comedy clearly was a casualty.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 19 June 2018
• Second-graders are preparing to watch caterpillars sprout into butterflies.
  — Lily Altavena, azcentral, 4 May 2018
• There the fungus multiplies and ultimately kills the caterpillar.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• The region was in the midst of a gnarly spongy-moth infestation; caterpillars were gobbling up oak leaves at a horrifying rate, showering the landscape with frass.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
• This picture is of an Edith’s checkerspot butterfly laying her eggs on some blue-eyed Mary, the plant usually eaten by its caterpillars.
  — The Economist, 9 May 2018
• Jeanette The tiny bacteria multiplied quickly in her heart, settling like clinging caterpillar feet on the delicate leaflets of her mitral valve.
  — Tom Hallman Jr., OregonLive.com, 12 May 2018
• However feeding on it as caterpillars gives monarch butterflies their unpalatability to predators.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
• The light of the kitchen tinged the caterpillar's skin yellow.
  — Jackie Polzin, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
• About the length of a paper clip, the caterpillar sways its black and bristly body back and forth.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 28 Feb. 2024
• If the head of the caterpillar is dark, winter will start cold.
  — Lilly St. Angelo, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2021
• Those are the cocoons of the wasp larvae that have fed on the caterpillar.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2022
• For years, a blight of caterpillars had been munching the trees to death.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• The eggs hatch and the tiny green caterpillars start eating.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 15 July 2019
• Kids and adults both coo at the sight of a crawling caterpillar.
  — Molly Schools, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2020
• To rear a caterpillar to the adult stage, see the directions here.
  — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2021
• Once the tube is cool, the wasp fills the cavity with mud, an egg and a bit of prey, like a caterpillar.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
• So the wasp comes, puts loads of larvae inside of the caterpillars.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• This is a native caterpillar and a great food source for birds.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018
• Like all moths, the atlas starts first as a caterpillar.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2022
• But this only works on the little ones, not on the full-sized caterpillars.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024