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 ...

Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by ...

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

Nicknamed the "bone collector," this rare caterpillar is as elusive as it is eerie, and may be unlike anything the scientific world has seen before. The caterpillar cloaks itself in the body parts ...

The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the skeletons of the spider's victims and the spider's own shed skin. HPR's ...

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

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

A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...