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

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

In Hawaii, a rare carnivorous caterpillar was discovered to engage in a truly gruesome behavior. It disguises itself in the [ ...

HONOLULU - A newly identified species of caterpillar in Hawaii is garnering attention for its unusual behavior, which ...

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

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the 'bone collector.” The odd insect is only ...

The “bone collector" caterpillar lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts of the spider’s ...

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

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking exclusively in spider webs and disguising itself in the corpses of its prey.