In Hawaii, a rare carnivorous caterpillar was discovered to engage in a truly gruesome behavior. It disguises itself in the [ ...

Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...

Matthew Cloutier is a producer for TED Radio Hour. While at the show, he has focused on stories about science and the natural world, ranging from operating Mars rovers to exploring Antarctica's hidden ...

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking exclusively in spider webs and disguising itself in the corpses of its prey.

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 ...

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 ...

The findings about the rare bone collector caterpillar, a newly discovered species native to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

The caterpillar, known as the "bone collector," was found to live in spider webs, where it decorates its cocoon with body ...