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‘Bone collector’ caterpillar wears the body parts of dead bugs
Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
The ‘Bone Collector’ Doesn’t Play With Its Food. It Wears It.
And then there are the carnivorous caterpillars, an evolutionary rarity. And now scientists have discovered one very hungry ...
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 ...
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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 ...