Cases of “the bone collector,” an extremely rare carnivorous caterpillar that decorates itself in the body parts of its meals.Credit...Rubinoff lab/Entomology Section, University of Hawaii ...

What it eats: Flies, weevils, bark beetles, ants or any arthropod caught in a spider's web Why it's awesome: The bone collector is not just a very hungry caterpillar — it has an appetite for flesh.

Add to that list the newly discovered "bone collector" caterpillar, which conducts daring raids on spider webs for sustenance, camouflaging itself in the body parts of already-consumed insects to ...

Deep within Oahu's forests lurks the "Bone Collector," a carnivorous caterpillar with a gruesome camouflage strategy. This rare creature adorns its silk case with the remains of its insect prey ...

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 spider webs ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

Your mind is turning to mush like the arthropod guts that feed it. Or, more likely, there’s a bone collector in your midst. A newly discovered moth species spends its caterpillar days squatting ...

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

Nicknamed the "bone collector," this rare caterpillar is as elusive as it is eerie, and may be unlike anything the scientific world has seen before. The caterpillar cloaks itself in the body parts ...