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In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a ...
There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.
Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...
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 ...
In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the long-legged centipedes or impaling air-snatchers that usually star in the islands ...
The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...
The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...
Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...
is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the “bone collector” comes ...
is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the "bone collector" comes from ...
In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu ... way that they have nicknamed it the “bone collector.” U.S. Immigration and Customs ...