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By Will Dunham (Reuters) -In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.
Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...
In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the ...
The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...
A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...
Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.
The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...
The “bone collector" caterpillar lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts of the spider’s ...
The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...
Discover the bone collector caterpillar, a carnivorous insect unique to Hawaii that adorns its silk case with prey.
In a remote and lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...