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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts of the spider’s ...

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

A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...

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.