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Earth is home to over 20,000 caterpillar species, found in every corner of the globe except Antarctica. While most are ...

This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it's not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths ...

When Entomophaga grylli infects locusts or grasshoppers, they climb to the tops of plants before their death. The zombie-ant ...

A carnivorous caterpillar discovered on the Hawaiian island of Oahu adorns its silken protective case with the body parts of insect prey. This macabre coat helps them hide from spiders, whose webs ...

Lacking insect and arthropod parts, the caterpillars won’t tack on other types of debris. And they pay special attention to size. They probe prospective additions with their mandibles, ...

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 ...

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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 ...