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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, scientists have discovered a ...
‘Bone collector’ caterpillar discovered by UH scientists
The “bone collector" caterpillar lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts of the spider’s ...
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Meet the ‘bone collector’: A newly discovered insect in Hawaiʻi
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists have discovered a new caterpillar species they dub the “bone collector.” The bone ...
New carnivorous 'bone collector' caterpillar species discovered in Hawaii
The findings about the rare bone collector caterpillar, a newly discovered species native to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
The ‘Bone Collector’ Doesn’t Play With Its Food. It Wears It.
Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.
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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Extremely Metal "Bone Collector" Caterpillar Cloaks Itself in the Shattered Exoskeletons of Its Vanquished Foes
A newly discovered species of caterpillar in Hawaii is unlike any other. It's carnivorous — already an extreme rarity for ...