Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a rare carnivorous caterpillar that hunts trapped insects and camouflages itself with ...

Seeing any insect scuttle around your home is cause for concern, but when it’s a bug that bites, all bets are off. Of course, ...

The carnivorous "bone collector" caterpillar is the only known species of its kind, researchers say, and its ancient lineage ...

Dubbed the “bone collector,” this newly described caterpillar is one of the rarest known members of the insect world, ...

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

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

The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told Ars. His team was on Oa'hu looking for Hyposcoma when they came across a ...

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

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

Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.

The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...