A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, which is the only place it's known to live today ...

This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it's not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths ...

A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders. Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn ...

The newly described “bone collector” caterpillar species disguises itself with the body parts of dead insects so that it can live among spiders and poach their prey. This is the only ...

It creeps along spiderwebs, feeding on trapped insects and decorating its silk case with their body parts. There are other meat-eating caterpillars that “do lots of crazy things, but this takes ...