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DANIEL RUBINOFF: This bone collector stands alone. It is a lone wolf. SUMMERS: Bone collectors eat other bugs, and if that wasn't punk enough for you, their name comes from what they do to bug corpses ...
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.
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 ...
In a remote, lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists have discovered a new caterpillar species they dub the “bone collector.” The bone ...
The findings about the rare bone collector caterpillar, a newly discovered species native to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
Scientists have unearthed the fossil of Vulcanidris cratensis, the oldest-known ant, and discovered a carnivorous caterpillar ...
HONOLULU - A newly identified species of caterpillar in Hawaii is garnering attention for its unusual behavior, which ...
Exciting discoveries in science reveal a 113 million-year-old ant fossil, a macabre bone-collecting caterpillar in Hawaii, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The ...