The bone collector's origins date back at least 6 million years, making the caterpillars more ancient than the Hawaiian islands themselves. Today, they dwell on an isolated patch of mountain ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists have discovered a new caterpillar species they dub the “bone collector.” The bone collector lives in spiderwebs and decorates ...

The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered it, hides from its natural predator by wearing a silk case strewn with the body parts of other ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The carnivorous caterpillars construct a sort of armor out of the body ...

The newly described “bone collector” caterpillar species disguises itself with the body parts of dead insects so that it can live among spiders and poach their prey. This is the only ...

They even resort to cannibalism, attacking other caterpillars of the same species. The "Bone Collector" was the nickname of a serial killer in author Jeffery Deaver's 1997 novel "The Bone ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” There are other meat-eating caterpillars that “do lots of crazy ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the "bone collector." The odd insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It creeps along spiderwebs ...