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Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...
The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...
There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.
In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the ...
Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.
In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a ...
Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...
The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...
The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...
Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...
A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...