Sometimes when the parts are too big, the case gets stuck in webs. It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the "bone ... along spiderwebs, feeding on trapped insects and adorning its silk case with their body parts.

It creeps along spiderwebs, feeding on trapped insects and decorating its silk case with their body parts. There are other ... are extremely rare, and the bone collectors found in Hawaii will ...

A newly discovered moth species spends its caterpillar days squatting in spiderwebs, fastidiously camouflaging itself in the cast-off parts of other creepy crawlies. The carnivorous “bone ...

Add to that list the newly discovered "bone collector" caterpillar, which conducts daring raids on spider webs for sustenance, camouflaging itself in the body parts of already-consumed insects to ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The carnivorous caterpillars construct a sort of armor out of the body parts of dead ...

OAHU — In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species that makes a living in such a ...

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 ...

The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered it, hides from its natural predator by wearing a silk case strewn with the body parts of other ...

The crafty caterpillar camouflages itself from the spider, which would happily eat it, by hiding its body inside a case it fashions from its own silk and adorns it with inedible body parts that it ...