Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the "bone collector." The odd insect is only ...

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking exclusively in spider webs and disguising itself in the corpses of its prey.

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species that makes a living in such a macabre way that they have ...

DANIEL RUBINOFF: This bone collector stands alone. It is a lone wolf. SUMMERS: Bone collectors eat other bugs, and if that wasn't punk enough for you, their name comes from what they do to bug corpses ...

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 cocoons.

On this week's episode: bone collector caterpillar, dolphins pee on each other, using cars to sample air, and obsidian ...

But the bone collector’s future is far from secure. Hawaii’s ecosystems are under siege from invasive ants and parasitic wasps. Rubinoff warns that the bone collector “could be one new ant ...

But entomologist Daniel Rubinoff of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, he would like you to meet the hungry caterpillar's carnivorous cousin. DANIEL RUBINOFF: This bone collector stands alone.