Remarkably, the authors conclude the bone collector has been doing its thing for millions of years, having broken away from its nearest relatives at least six million years ago.

This carnivorous creature belongs to the Hyposmocoma genus and has earned the nickname “bone collector” for its eerie behaviour.

However, this discovery shows that the bone collector caterpillar is its own unique species, which is already considered endangered due to its rarity and limited range.

Researchers in Hawaiʻi have described an unusual species of carnivorous caterpillar that scavenges in spiderwebs while wearing cast-off bits of the spider’s prey. Nicknamed the “bone ...

Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings and heads of their victims to avoid detection by their spider hosts.

“The bone collector caterpillar is another example of how incredible and unpredictable evolution in Hawaiʻi can be,” said Dan Rubinoff, a UH Mānoa entomology professor.

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

University of Hawaii at Manoa scientists found a new caterpillar species that lives in spider webs and wears body parts of the spider's prey.

Discover the bone collector caterpillar, a carnivorous insect unique to Hawaii that adorns its silk case with prey.

The findings about the rare bone collector caterpillar, a newly discovered species native to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, were published Thursday in the journal Science. The bone collector ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The carnivorous caterpillars construct a sort of armor out of the body ...