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Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans.
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Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates hyperrealistic body parts designed to help medical ...
These six bone collector caterpillar specimens adorned their cases with beetle wings, ant heads, fly wings and legs, spider legs and other insect body parts. Their cases—the gray material seen t ...
University of Hawaii at Manoa scientists found a new caterpillar species that lives in spider webs and wears body parts of the spider's prey. 2/2 Swipe or click to see more ...
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 ...
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 ...
AUSTIN, Texas (WKRC) - A mortuary owner was accused of "experimenting" on severed body parts from corpses she was in charge of cremating. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by local ...
Six specimens of a newly identified carnivorous caterpillar species nicknamed the “bone collector,” which camouflages itself by wearing body parts of its prey, are seen in this handout image ...
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 ...
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 ...