The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.

Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by ...

The newly described “bone collector” caterpillar species disguises itself with the body parts of dead insects so that it can live among spiders and poach their prey. This is the only ...

There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.

Hawaiian scientists discover a carnivorous caterpillar that decorates its shell with the body parts of dead insects ...

These six bone collector caterpillar specimens adorned their cases with beetle wings, ant heads, fly wings and legs, spider legs and other insect body parts. Their cases—the gray material seen t ...

and may use the body parts to camouflage themselves from their arachnid landlords. The researchers note that they never observed any spider-gnawed larvae or any wrapped in spider silk. In addition ...