The caterpillar, known as the "bone collector," was found to live in spider webs, where it decorates its cocoon with body ...

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

Or maybe it's hundreds of tiny spiders or baby creatures ... According to the BioKIDS website, these silk cocoon structures are how various insects spin webs to shelter themselves.

A new species of caterpillar called the "bone collector" strips the body parts of its slain enemies and uses them to make a ...

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

Peter Parker might be best known as a friendly neighborhood hero, though there are a few variants of Spider-Man who have the ...

Studies suggest that the wasp larva hacks its host by injecting hormones that tell the spider it’s time to molt. The cocoon web does look suspiciously like the type the spiders use to protect ...

Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn’t spin ...

As detailed in a study published in the journal Science, the caterpillars favor lurking in spider webs hidden from view ... forming a sort of portable cocoon. Rubinoff first stumbled across ...

It doesn’t spin cocoons. And it doesn’t mind getting ... It sneaks into the spider’s web and steals bits of dead ants, flies and beetles. Some researchers believe the caterpillar may even ...