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

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.

Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...

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 ...

The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...

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

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

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 ...

In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu ... way that they have nicknamed it the “bone collector.” A federally funded environmental ...