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

Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...

In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the ...

Deep within Oahu's forests lurks the "Bone Collector," a carnivorous caterpillar ... diverse group of moths found only in Hawaii. Many species in this genus create portable silk cases decorated ...

“The caterpillars have never been found predated by spiders or wrapped in spider silk.” Essentially ... present danger for both caterpillar and moth alike,” Dr. David Wagner, an entomologist ...

“We have identified body parts belonging to more than six different families of insect attached to the silk caterpillar cases ... diverse group of scavenging moths found only in Hawaii.

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It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag ... even gnawing through silk for a meal. After chowing down, the bone collectors check out what ...

“We reared them in the lab, and the students all thought they were the cutest things in the world,” LoPresti says. “Had to be sternly told not to touch them because of how much they sting, because ...

Bark beetles are important for New Mexico’s forest ecosystems. They usually attack stressed trees, which are then replaced by younger, stronger trees. Defoliators are insects that eat tree ...