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A Rare Carnivorous Caterpillar That Wears The Remains Of Other Insects Has Been Found In Hawaii
In Hawaii, a rare carnivorous caterpillar was discovered to engage in a truly gruesome behavior. It disguises itself in the [ ...
"Bone collector" caterpillar disguises itself in the remains of its prey, scientists say
There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.
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Bone collector caterpillar: The very hungry caterpillar of your nightmares
Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...
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Hawaii’s ‘bone collector’ caterpillar wears body parts of dead prey
In a remote, lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...
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'Bone collector' caterpillar species crawls its way to discovery on Oʻahu
The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...
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Researchers Discover a Rare, Carnivorous Caterpillar That Wears Dead Insect Parts to Fool Spiders
The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
The ‘Bone Collector’ Doesn’t Play With Its Food. It Wears It.
And then there are the carnivorous caterpillars, an evolutionary rarity. And now scientists have discovered one very hungry ...
A carnivorous ‘bone collector’ caterpillar dresses in the remains of its prey
A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
‘Bone collector’ caterpillar, a new species, wears outfit of body parts
The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...
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Hawaii's 'bone collector' caterpillar wears the body parts of dead prey
OAHU — In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species that makes a living in such a ...