This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it’s not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths and ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick ...

It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged body parts from dead insects. This ghastly getup may allow the creatures to ...

A newly discovered carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The odd insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It creeps along ...