Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.

The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

A flesh-eating caterpillar dresses up in bones to sneak onto spider webs and steal prey, scientists have discovered.

Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws ...

Researchers found that spiders never attacked the bone collector ... is highly selective about its decorations. Using its mandibles, it examines each potential body part, trimming larger pieces ...

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

Its mandibles moved up and down and not side to ... Fossils from the region show that Vulcanidris lived alongside other insects, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, various crustaceans, turtles ...