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This is what our house looked like when we moved in.The caterpillars develop and then they fall down and die.
The caterpillars develop and then they fall down and die.
The caterpillars can fall down, easily get below ground because the soil is not compacted.
How many caterpillars does it take to make a nest of chickadees?
The ginkgo produces zero caterpillars, but it's not invasive.
make those caterpillars that run our food webs are an excellent index of the quality of the ecosystem that you have restored.
And so they brought in caterpillars and milkweed-- I don't know how it all works.
And it turns out the caterpillars are enormously important in terms of supporting animals.
you have to have all those caterpillars in your yard, because chickadees only forage about 50 meters from the nest.
So how do we add caterpillars to a landscape?
Not only do they make no caterpillars, but they're invading our natural areas and pushing out the plants that do.
There were nine hackberry emperor caterpillars on a single branch.
Goldenrod supports 110 species of caterpillars in my area.
They're the caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth.
It takes thousands-- 6,000 to 9,000 caterpillars to get one clutch of chickadees to the point where they leave the nest.
And if we landscape in a way without those caterpillars, without those insects, that's called insect decline.
And we have to be fussy about it because the caterpillars themselves are fussy.
So if we design landscapes that don't have a lot of caterpillars in them, we have failed.
And that is that most plants don't support a lot of caterpillars.
The fourth thing we need to do is to landscape in a way that allows caterpillars to complete their development.
96% of our terrestrial birds rear their young on insects, and most of those insects are caterpillars.
After they leave the nest, the parents continue to feed them caterpillars for another 21 days.
Well, you add them by adding the plants that support those caterpillars.
But, to do that, we had to bring the caterpillars back.
They're supporting, collectively, over 950 species of caterpillars nationwide.
And as you get high enough, they almost look like caterpillars walking across the landscape.
the dirt, the trees, the butterflies, the caterpillars, the birds, you exist.
And, if they are in a healthy environment, they will rear their young exclusively on caterpillars.
So let's just say, there's a lot of evidence for this, that birds need caterpillars.
We have to have functional food webs in those landscapes, which means we have to put some caterpillars in there.
And these are all the ways that lights are killing our insects, particularly those moths that create those all-important caterpillars.
Well, I live in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where oaks support 511 species of caterpillars.
And we mow and compact the soils under our trees, under our plants so that they're way too hard for the caterpillars to get underground.
For this book, I attended an authentic Roman banquet and ate strange foods of all kinds, everything from caterpillars to walruses.