Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings and heads of their victims to avoid detection by their spider hosts.

There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.

Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by ...

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

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

Nicknamed the "bone collector," this rare caterpillar is as elusive as it is eerie, and may be unlike anything the scientific world has seen before. The caterpillar cloaks itself in the body parts ...

Hawaiian scientists discover a carnivorous caterpillar that decorates its shell with the body parts of dead insects ...

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

Instead, it is something stranger — a caterpillar wrapped in the body parts of the dead. Yes, this thing is for real. Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile ...

The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to fool the spiders with which it lives.

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

A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...