Your mind is turning to mush like the arthropod guts that feed it. Or, more likely, there’s a bone collector in your midst. A newly discovered moth species spends its caterpillar days squatting ...

Using their silk, bone collector caterpillars weave together a grotesque suit of armor. They snip, chew, and shape the remnants of beetles, weevils, flies, even spider molts — always scavenged ...

Rubinoff Lab, Entomology Section, University of Hawaii at ManoaA video of the Hawaiian “bone collector” caterpillar shows how it creates its camouflage. Caterpillars are remarkable creatures ...

Add to that list the newly discovered "bone collector" caterpillar, which conducts daring raids on spider webs for sustenance, camouflaging itself in the body parts of already-consumed insects to ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the "bone collector." The insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It creeps along spiderwebs ...

Cases of “the bone collector,” an extremely rare carnivorous caterpillar that decorates itself in the body parts of its meals.Credit...Rubinoff lab/Entomology Section, University of Hawaii ...

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.

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 ...

On a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu, scientists have identified a species of carnivorous caterpillar with a macabre lifestyle: it lives in cobwebs and feasts on weakened or ...

But these are even rarer still. The researchers have dubbed this newly discovered species "bone collector" and are working on publishing a species description that will include a formal ...

Nicknamed the "bone collector," this rare caterpillar is as elusive as it is eerie, and may be unlike anything the scientific world has seen before. The caterpillar cloaks itself in the body parts ...

The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered it, hides from its natural predator by wearing a silk case strewn with the body parts of other ...