TOPEKA (KSNT) – Spotted a fuzzy-looking caterpillar lately? A Kansas insect expert says you might want to leave it alone as it could be packing a painful surprise. 27 News spoke with Kansas State ...

A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar species ...

A rare Hyposmocoma caterpillar, nicknamed the "bone collector," discovered in Oʻahu, Hawaii, uses dead insect parts to disguise itself on spider webs The newly identified species is carnivorous and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. This is the only caterpillar known ...

A newly discovered species of caterpillar has been found creeping through spider webs on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu – and it’s unlike anything scientists have seen before. Not only does it live in ...

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 ...

Life gets pretty grim for a caterpillar if it becomes infected with a parasitic wasp says Nick Baker? Who says zombies aren't ...

Not all fluff is friendly, and there's nobody better than Megalopyge opercularis, or Puss Caterpillar, to teach us that lesson. This caterpillar looks almost unreal at first glance. It's covered in ...