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A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...
In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the ...
In a remote and lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...
Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...
The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...
And then there are the carnivorous caterpillars, an evolutionary rarity. And now scientists have discovered one very hungry ...
There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.
The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...
Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by ...
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species that makes a living in such a macabre way that they have nicknamed it the “bone collector.” A federally funded environmental ...
is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the "bone collector" comes from ...