A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this ...

And there’s a nasty-looking insect underneath, hauling these ants corpses along like a miniature backpack. This is Acanthaspis petax, a member of the Reduviidae family, which is found in East ...

This case is one of the most diverse the team found. Its decorations include: a weevil head, an ant head, spider legs, bits of fly wing, pieces of beetle wing and abdomen, and other insect body parts.

The newly described “bone collector” caterpillar species disguises itself with the body parts of dead insects so that it can live among spiders and poach their prey. This is the only ...

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 ...

World’s fastest ants found racing across the Sahara. The silver ants can run their body length in less than a hundredth of a second—the equivalent of a human running 400 miles an hour.