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 ...

Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to feed on trapped prey: both living and freshly dead. Bone collectors will ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, which is the only place it's known to live today ...

The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered it, hides from its natural predator by wearing a silk case strewn with the body parts of other ...

That means its ancestors likely inhabited other Hawaiian islands before becoming isolated on the mountainside where it now survives. Of course, survival is far from guaranteed. The bone collector ...

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.” Randall Wallace, 67, was apartment ...

is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the “bone collector” comes ...

is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the "bone collector" comes from ...

is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the “bone collector” comes ...