Scientists discovered a caterpillar that lives in spider webs, eating the bugs that get stuck - including the spider that ...

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A new species of carnivorous caterpillar calls a counterintuitive place home: a spider’s lair. The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered ...

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They even resort to cannibalism, attacking other caterpillars of the same species. The "Bone Collector" was the nickname of a serial killer in author Jeffery Deaver's 1997 novel "The Bone ...

Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, rare and bizarre species of carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars. After hatching, the tiny insects live almost their entire lives in the web of a ...

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Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar species sports remains of prey as camouflage while it stalks spider webs for trapped bugs, researchers report in the April 25 Science. The ...

Since Dr. Rubinoff first encountered the species in 2008 inside a tree hollow, his team has conducted more than 150 field surveys and found only 62 bone collector specimens. The caterpillar is now ...