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By Will Dunham (Reuters) -In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...
There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.
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ZME Science on MSNThe “Bone Collector” Caterpillar Disguises Itself With the Bodies of Its Victims and Lives in Spider WebsIn the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the ...
Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.
A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...
Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by ...
The “bone collector" caterpillar lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts of the spider’s ...
The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...
The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...
In a remote and lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...
is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the "bone collector" comes from ...
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