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Carnivorous caterpillars discovered on the Hawaiian island of Oahu have a freaky fashion sense. Science | The ‘Bone Collector’ Doesn’t Play With Its Food. It Wears It.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.