Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...

Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...

There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.

In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a ...

Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...

A new species of caterpillar called the "bone collector" strips the body parts of its slain enemies and uses them to make a ...

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking exclusively in spider webs and disguising itself in the corpses of its prey.

Cases of “the bone collector,” an extremely rare carnivorous caterpillar that decorates itself in the body parts of its meals.Credit...Rubinoff lab/Entomology Section, University of Hawaii ...