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

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

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

In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the ...

The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...

The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...

A new 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 spiderwebs ...

Researchers in Hawaiʻi have described an unusual species of carnivorous caterpillar that scavenges in spiderwebs while ...

Discover the bone collector caterpillar, a carnivorous insect unique to Hawaii that adorns its silk case with prey.

In a remote, lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...