In the light of the moon glimmering over just six square miles of a mountain range on O‘ahu, a little egg waited to hatch.

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

In Hawaii, a rare carnivorous caterpillar was discovered to engage in a truly gruesome behavior. It disguises itself in the [ ...

Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...

DANIEL RUBINOFF: This bone collector stands alone. It is a lone wolf. SUMMERS: Bone collectors eat other bugs, and if that ...

The Bronx Zoo in New York is using a specially designed hand puppet to feed its new king vulture chick, which is intended to ...

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.

Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn’t spin cocoons.

Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn’t spin ...

The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...

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

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