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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 ...
In a remote, lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...
Discover the bone collector caterpillar, a carnivorous insect unique to Hawaii that adorns its silk case with prey.
The “bone collector" caterpillar lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts of the spider’s ...
The findings about the rare bone collector caterpillar, a newly discovered species native to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
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.
The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...
“The bone collector caterpillar is another example of how incredible and unpredictable evolution in Hawaii can be,” Rubinoff said. “Not only are they the only caterpillars in the world to ...
In Hawaii, a rare carnivorous caterpillar was discovered to engage in a truly gruesome behavior. It disguises itself in the [ ...