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Scientist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa discovered a new caterpillar with a questionable sense of fashion and ...

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Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings and heads of their victims to avoid detection by their spider hosts.

In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the long-legged centipedes or impaling air-snatchers that usually star in the islands ...

COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII / REUTERS . Specimens of a newly identified carnivorous caterpillar species nicknamed the “bone collector” camouflage themselves by wearing body parts of their prey.

The "Bone Collector" was the nickname of a serial killer in author Jeffery Deaver's 1997 ... Hawaii is losing native species due to invasive species taking over habitats and turning them ...

Hawaii's 'bone collector' caterpillar wears the body parts of dead prey. Will Dunham. Fri, April 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM UTC. 3 min read. The habitat of a newly identified carnivorous caterpillar ...

Six specimens of a newly identified carnivorous caterpillar species nicknamed the ?bone collector?, which camouflages itself by wearing body parts of its prey, are seen in this handout image ...

The researchers said the "bone collector" inhabits a patch of mountain forest spanning just 5.8 square miles (15 square km) in the Waianae mountain range. Rubinoff said this caterpillar has a very ...

Hawaii’s ’bone collector’ caterpillar wears the body parts of dead prey. Sports & General. Published 04/25/2025, 09:55 AM. Updated 04/25/2025, 03:51 PM.

The habitat of a newly identified carnivorous caterpillar species nicknamed the “bone collector”, which camouflages itself by wearing body parts of its prey, in Waianae mountain range of the ...