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 and ...

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found an incredible strategy. A species of caterpillar that scientists are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged body ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts. In their ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre new species of carnivorous caterpillar on a single mountainside in O‘ahu, Hawai‘i—an elusive predator that scavenges for prey within spider webs and camouflages ...

On a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu, scientists have identified a species of carnivorous caterpillar with a macabre lifestyle: it lives in cobwebs and feasts on weakened or dead ...

Most caterpillars spend their days chewing leaves and preparing for the long transformation into butterflies or moths. That peaceful image falls apart when you meet the creature scientists now call ...

In a remote and lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species that makes a living in such a macabre way that they have nicknamed it the ...

Giant prehistoric insects may not have depended on high oxygen levels after all. Scientists now think something else must explain their massive size. Credit: SciTechDaily.com The true reason ancient ...