Watch: Caterpillars transform into butterflies in this incredible time-lapse. | National Geographic

They may look like a pile of insect parts—but bone collector caterpillars are actually cleverly camouflaged critters. These rare carnivorous caterpillars are a newly described species in Hawaiʻi. Whatever they don’t eat they use to decorate silk cases that cover their bodies, which entomologists believe help them hide from spiders. When studying them in the lab, researchers noticed that they would sometimes engage in cannibalism when sharing a space. In this clip, at 2x speed, one caterpillar at