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Researchers in Hawaiʻi have described an unusual species of carnivorous caterpillar that scavenges in spiderwebs while ...
In the light of the moon glimmering over just six square miles of a mountain range on O‘ahu, a little egg waited to hatch.
A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the "bone collector." The odd insect is only ...
This suggests bone collector moths migrated from an even older Hawaiian island that has since disappeared to get to their ...
DANIEL RUBINOFF: This bone collector stands alone. It is a lone wolf. SUMMERS: Bone collectors eat other bugs, and if that ...
Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking ...
Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn’t spin cocoons.
The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...
The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
The “bone collector" caterpillar lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts of the spider’s ...
In a remote, lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists have discovered a new caterpillar species they dub the “bone collector.” The bone ...