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.

The newly described “bone collector” caterpillar species disguises itself with the body parts of dead insects so that it can live among spiders and poach their prey.

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 ...

A "bone collector" caterpillar sits in a cobweb with a spider and its egg sac. The newly discovered moth species disguises itself as a larva by covering itself with insect parts. Daniel Rubinoff ...

Meet Hawaii’s “bone collector” caterpillar—an insect larva that decorates itself with the body parts of its prey for camouflage and survival.

Thanks to a time stamp, Thorben Danke knows the exact moment he got hooked on photographing insects. On July 22, 2016, at 6:05 p.m. he happened to see a green bottle fly sitting near him on his ...

Video of a Hawaiian “bone collector” caterpillar, camouflaged in its insect prey’s body parts, crawling on black fabric at 2X speed. Rubinoff Lab, Entomology Section, University of Hawaii at ...

Six specimens of a newly identified carnivorous caterpillar species nicknamed the “bone collector,” which camouflages itself by wearing body parts of its prey, are seen in this handout image ...

Life 'Bone collector' caterpillar wears dead insect body parts as disguise. A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...

Insects stumble their way into your nexus of sticky silk fibers. You trap them, ... Perhaps it was just one odd caterpillar choosing body parts for its case based on circumstance.

And images that show sensory hairs on different body parts may help entomologists think about how certain animals behave. A death’s-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos , caterpillar Thorben Danke ...