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

In a remote, lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...

In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a ...

Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.

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.

In a remote and lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The ...

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 ...

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.