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A carnivorous ‘bone collector’ caterpillar dresses in the remains of its prey
A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...
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The “Bone Collector” Caterpillar Disguises Itself With the Bodies of Its Victims and Lives in Spider Webs
In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the ...
Hawaii's 'bone collector' caterpillar wears the body parts of dead prey
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
Meet the 'Bone Collector' Caterpillar: A Rare Hawaiian Insect That Wears Its Prey and Lives Among Spiders
Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...
"Bone collector" caterpillar disguises itself in the remains of its prey, scientists say
There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.
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Researchers Discover a Rare, Carnivorous Caterpillar That Wears Dead Insect Parts to Fool Spiders
The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
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'Bone collector' caterpillar species crawls its way to discovery on Oʻahu
The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...
The ‘Bone Collector’ Doesn’t Play With Its Food. It Wears It.
And then there are the carnivorous caterpillars, an evolutionary rarity. And now scientists have discovered one very hungry ...
‘Bone collector’ caterpillar, a new species, wears outfit of body parts
The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...
These newly discovered rare caterpillars eat each other and cover themselves with bones
Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, extremely rare species: carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars, that live in ...
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Hawaii’s ‘bone collector’ caterpillar wears body parts of dead prey
In a remote, lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...
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Hawaii’s ‘bone collector’ caterpillar wears the body parts of dead prey
In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu ... way that they have nicknamed it the “bone collector.” A federally funded environmental ...