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

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

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

Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...

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

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

Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.

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

Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

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

Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, extremely rare species: carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars, that live in ...

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.