A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders. Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn ...

by hiding its body inside a case it fashions from its own silk and adorns it with inedible body parts that it collected from the dead insects. Through metamorphosis, this caterpillar eventually turns ...

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 ...

The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered it, hides from its natural predator by wearing a silk case strewn with the body parts of other ...

CEDRIC LODGE OF GOFFSTOWN ALLEGEDLY SOLD THE BODY PARTS TO PEOPLE IN MULTIPLE STATES BETWEEN 2018 AND 2023. PROSECUTORS SAY THE REMAINS CAME FROM PEOPLE WHO DONATED THEIR BODIES TO HARVARD.