How to Use caterpillar in a Sentence

caterpillar

noun

• The caterpillar even helps encase the pupal cocoons with its own silk.
  — Author: Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 June 2017
• The caterpillar has 13 segments, and is often brown in the middle and black at both ends.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
• Yucca moth caterpillars, kangaroo rats and ground squirrels eat their seeds.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
• There’s no more drought, the summer has been mild and the leaves — largely spared by marauding gypsy moth caterpillars — look healthy.
  — William J. Kole, The Seattle Times, 17 Aug. 2017
• As the legend goes, each segment of the caterpillar corresponds to a different week of winter.
  — Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2024
• The only plant this moth’s caterpillar offspring will chow down on is oleander, hence its other common name, the oleander moth.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 1 July 2017
• Candidates for the job include caterpillars that can chow down on plastic bags and bacteria in wastewater that munches on plastic bottles.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• Will a caterpillar move from one defended plant to its neighbor before cannibalizing?
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 11 July 2017
• Another idea is of emergence from something prior — for example, a butterfly emerging from a caterpillar or chrysalis.
  — Amanda Gefter, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• Insect culprits can range from beetles (adults and juveniles) to caterpillars, earwigs, crickets, grasshoppers and katydids.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024
• Many of them provide sustenance to the caterpillars of butterflies and other pollinators.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 14 July 2017
• The chance to work on a short film about a baby caterpillar, using computer animation tools for the first time, reignited his passion, according to the documentary.
  — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
• The guests separated into two lines, men and women, and shuffled forward to be swiped at delicately so the caterpillars crawling across backs and shoulders, pants legs and skirts, fell into the metal tray.
  — Beth Kephart, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2017
• Not yucca moths: because their caterpillars depend on the continued existence of Joshua trees and their tasty seeds, the yucca moth’s pollination is an active act of survival.
  — Sam Schipani, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• Not yucca moths: because their caterpillars depend on the continued existence of Joshua trees and their tasty seeds, the yucca moth’s pollination is an active act of survival.
  — Sam Schipani, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• 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
• The gypsy moth is the adult stage of one of the caterpillar species that threaten tree canopies.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• To rear a caterpillar to the adult stage, see the directions here.
  — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2021
• Stay alert to caterpillars that feed on the foliage and fruit.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024