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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What it eats: Flies, weevils, bark beetles, ants or any arthropod caught in a spider's web Why it's awesome: The bone collector is not just a very hungry caterpillar — it has an appetite for flesh.

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