The bone collector caterpillar puts a macabre spin on the practice. Using silk, the caterpillar weaves bits of the dead insects it encounters on the spider’s web.

Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings and heads of their victims to avoid detection by their spider hosts.

A bone collector can be quite selective, picking up potential body parts among the web detritus and probing them with its mandibles, chewing larger pieces down to the desired size.

Why it's awesome: The bone collector is not just a very hungry caterpillar — it has an appetite for flesh.And once it finishes scavenging on dead or dying insects trapped in a spider's web, the ...

Using their silk, bone collector caterpillars weave together a grotesque suit of armor. They snip, chew, and shape the remnants of beetles, weevils, flies, even spider molts — always scavenged ...

For now, its common name, “bone collector,” will do. The unique epithet befits a unique animal, Rubinoff said. “No other caterpillar is stupid enough to live in a spider’s web,” he said.

The "Bone Collector" was the name of Jeffery Deaver's 1997 crime novel and subsequent 1999 movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. "I think the term is out there in the ether, ...

Item 1 of 2 The habitat of a newly identified carnivorous caterpillar species nicknamed the “bone collector”, which camouflages itself by wearing body parts of its prey, in Waianae mountain ...

But bone collector caterpillars slink through cobwebs in rotted logs, tree hollows, or crevices in rock and dine on newly dead or weakened insects they find, even gnawing through silk for a meal.

NEW YORK (AP) — A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The odd insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It creeps ...

Reuters. The habitat of a newly identified carnivorous caterpillar species nicknamed the “bone collector”, which camouflages itself by wearing body parts of its prey, in Waianae mountain range ...

The bone collector’s habitat is increasingly under threat from invasive ants, parasitic wasps, and the ever-present pressure of environmental change due to climate change and human disturbances ...