Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

Most of the time, when we encounter a caterpillar, we aren’t on high alert. After all, these seemingly harmless creatures ...

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

Researchers in Hawaiʻi have described an unusual species of carnivorous caterpillar that scavenges in spiderwebs while ...

Wheel bugs are unassuming until they strike. They spend most of their time hiding, using leafy plants as cover. Their ...

In the light of the moon glimmering over just six square miles of a mountain range on O‘ahu, a little egg waited to hatch.

Scientists have seen it scavenge insects already caught and killed ... That means it eats other caterpillars like itself. This kind of behavior is extremely rare in the world of moths and butterflies.

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking ...

The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...