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 ...

Like many geographically-isolated locations, Hawai'i is an extraordinary evolutionary site that contains many unusual invertebrates. In 2025, a research article led by Daniel Rubinoff in the journal ...

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 ...

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found an incredible strategy. A species of caterpillar that scientists are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged body ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts. In their ...

A scientific paper describing a previously unknown group of rove beetles has produced an unusual meeting point between ...