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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 ...
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 ...
The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...
Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...
The caterpillar, a previously unknown species, is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that ...
Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by covering itself with dead insect body parts ...
There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.
A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...
is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the "bone collector" comes from ...