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 ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

HONOLULU - A newly identified species of caterpillar in Hawaii is garnering attention for its unusual behavior, which ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the 'bone collector.” The odd insect is only ...

The “bone collector" caterpillar lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts of the spider’s ...

Discover the bone collector caterpillar, a carnivorous insect unique to Hawaii that adorns its silk case with prey.

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.