Heather Angel / Butterflies and day flying moths feed from Loofah flower (Luffa cylindrica) and pick up pollen on their legs, underside of thorax and antennae, South Sichuan Bamboo Sea, China

Ingo Arndt / Stream in "Valley of the butterflies", home of millions of Jersey tiger moths (Euplagia quadripunctaria), Rhodes, Greece

Ingo Arndt / Stream in "Valley of the butterflies", home of millions of Jersey tiger moths (Euplagia quadripunctaria), Rhodes, Greece

Ingo Arndt / Tropical moth on leaf reveals eyespots to avoid predation, Costa Rica. Sequence 2/2

Ingo Arndt / Tropical moth on leaf reveals eyespots to avoid predation, Costa Rica. Sequence 1/2

Ingo Arndt / Cryptic butterfly larva {Archaeoprepona sp} Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Ingo Arndt / Brush footed butterfly caterpillar with spines {Morpho amathonte} Costa Rica

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio machaon) on Fennel by Maria Sybella Merian 1683, from her book 'Caterpillars, Their Wondrous Transformation and Peculiar Nourishment from Flowers'. Meri...

Pal Hermansen / Collection of flying insects, including many moths, killed by accident during summer months when attracted to a lamp, Norway. Close-up Photographer of the Year 03 (2021) competition - Overall winne...

Adrian Davies / Scarlet caterpillar club (Cordyceps militaris) a parasitic fungus on the buried larvae of butterflies and moths. Sussex, England, UK, November.

Bence Mate / Close-up of unidentified catepillar, Lake Bajkal, Russia

Juergen Freund / Caterpillar crawling on a leaf, Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia