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‘Bone collector’ caterpillar discovered by UH scientists
The “bone collector" caterpillar lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts the spider’s prey.
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'Bone collector' caterpillar species crawls its way to discovery on Oʻahu
The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...
The ‘Bone Collector’ Doesn’t Play With Its Food. It Wears It.
Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.
These newly discovered rare caterpillars eat each other and cover themselves with bones
Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, extremely rare species: carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars, that live in ...
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Extremely Metal "Bone Collector" Caterpillar Cloaks Itself in the Shattered Exoskeletons of Its Vanquished Foes
A newly discovered species of caterpillar in Hawaii is unlike any other. It's carnivorous — already an extreme rarity for ...
This camouflaged critter wears severed insect body parts like a coat
Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...