{"id":17397,"date":"2025-04-01T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=17397"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:39","slug":"dr-jayne-yack-sheds-light-on-the-fascinating-dynamics-of-caterpillars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2025\/dr-jayne-yack-sheds-light-on-the-fascinating-dynamics-of-caterpillars\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jayne Yack sheds light on the fascinating dynamics of caterpillars on CBC Ottawa Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Dr. Jayne Yack sheds light on the fascinating dynamics of caterpillars on CBC Ottawa Morning\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jayne-yack\/\">Dr. Jayne Yack<\/a> and her lab have discovered that newborn warty birch caterpillars exhibit complex territorial behaviors despite their tiny size. This groundbreaking research highlights the sophisticated communication methods of these minute organisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the New York Times story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/04\/science\/caterpillars-territorial-vibrations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E4.3swr.Aevogw63dKL9&amp;smid=url-share\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/04\/science\/caterpillars-territorial-vibrations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E4.3swr.Aevogw63dKL9&amp;smid=url-share<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the CBC Ottawa Morning Interview here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-100-ottawa-morning\/clip\/16138606-caterpillars-good-vibrations-defend-its-tiny-kingdom\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-100-ottawa-morning\/clip\/16138606-caterpillars-good-vibrations-defend-its-tiny-kingdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to the original article for more details: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.biologists.com\/jeb\/article\/228\/7\/jeb249796\/367459\/Buzzing-boundaries-tiny-caterpillars-vibrate-to\">https:\/\/journals.biologists.com\/jeb\/article\/228\/7\/jeb249796\/367459\/Buzzing-boundaries-tiny-caterpillars-vibrate-to<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jayne Yack and her lab have discovered that newborn warty birch caterpillars exhibit complex territorial behaviors despite their tiny size. This groundbreaking research highlights the sophisticated communication methods of these minute organisms. Read the New York Times story here: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/04\/science\/caterpillars-territorial-vibrations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E4.3swr.Aevogw63dKL9&amp;smid=url-share. Listen to the CBC Ottawa Morning Interview here: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-100-ottawa-morning\/clip\/16138606-caterpillars-good-vibrations-defend-its-tiny-kingdom. Link to the original article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17420,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions\/17420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}