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.

In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a ...

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

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...

NEW YORK — A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey was dubbed the “bone collector.” The odd insect ...

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking exclusively in spider webs and disguising itself in the corpses of its prey.

A new species of caterpillar called the "bone collector" strips the body parts of its slain enemies and uses them to make a ...

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 ...