Carnivorous caterpillars discovered on the Hawaiian island of Oahu have a freaky fashion sense. Cases of “the bone collector,” an extremely rare carnivorous caterpillar that decorates itself ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the "bone collector." The insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It creeps along spiderwebs, feeding ...

This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it's not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths ...

Bone collector cases are cannibals. The video shows two bone collector caterpillars, with one attacking the other by biting a hole in the side of its silken cocoon, entering inside and killing and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The odd insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It creeps ...

The caterpillar, which grows to about half an inch in its larval form before becoming a moth, has yet to be designated a Latin name. For now, its common name, “bone collector,” will do.

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The process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly has long fascinated and inspired people. This remarkable metamorphosis, in which a crawling insect evolves into a graceful, winged ...

The extra legs caterpillars have appear have origins in the primitive crustaceans that insects evolved from during the Ordovician period over 400 million years ago.

News Science. New cannibal caterpillar that wears remains of prey discovered on US island. It has been dubbed the bone collector. Adithi Ramakrishnan. Thursday 24 April 2025 19:01 BST.

The caterpillar, which grows to about half an inch in its larval form before becoming a moth, has yet to be designated a Latin name. For now, its common name, “bone collector,” will do.