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In Hawaii, a rare carnivorous caterpillar was discovered to engage in a truly gruesome behavior. It disguises itself in the [ ...
Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...
A woman has made a horrific discovery inside a Cadbury chocolate bunny she purchased for Easter. At a time when many of us ...
DANIEL RUBINOFF: This bone collector stands alone. It is a lone wolf. SUMMERS: Bone collectors eat other bugs, and if that wasn't punk enough for you, their name comes from what they do to bug corpses ...
Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking exclusively in spider webs and disguising itself in the corpses of its prey.
A new article by UNSW Sydney researchers published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution suggests that introducing herbivorous ...
In today's Budding Wisdom, Heidi Skinner writes about the two kinds of bugs: "the ones we love and the ones we loathe" and ...
“We reared them in the lab, and the students all thought they were the cutest things in the world,” LoPresti says. “Had to be sternly told not to touch them because of how much they sting, because ...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will be doing aerial sprays of three state parks to mitigate the effects of ...
Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn’t spin ...
The larvae of the spongy moth, if untreated, can cause severe defoliation to oak forests that are important habitats for ...
When areas become heavily infested by the moths, trees may be completely stripped of leaves, and tree death can occur.