All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs, Brown says.

This new caterpillar species from Oʻahu hunts insects and decorates itself with their body parts. Yes, it’s real—and it’s ...

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 ...

This case is one of the most diverse the team found. Its decorations include: a weevil head, an ant head, spider legs, bits of fly wing, pieces of beetle wing and abdomen, and other insect body parts.

Survival in a fragile niche. Despite its impressive adaptations, the bone collector caterpillar faces an uncertain future. Its entire known population is confined to a 15-square-kilometer patch of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not only does it live in an eerily precarious environment, suspended among webs inside tree hollows, rock crevices and fallen logs, but this caterpillar is carnivorous. And after it’s finished ...