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‘Bone collector’ caterpillar wears the body parts of dead bugs
Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to feed on trapped prey: both living and freshly dead. Bone collectors will target and kill weakened or slow-moving insects, even hunting and cannibalizing their own kind. In each spiderweb, there can only be one.
The caterpillars most likely guard their leaf tip because it offers a good escape route. If an undeterred intruder continues ...
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Meet the rare caterpillar that hunts insects and wears their body parts as armorScientists in Hawaii have discovered a rare carnivorous caterpillar that hunts trapped insects and camouflages itself with ...
Yack, who first encountered the tiny creatures in 2008, said: "We had noticed that tiny warty birch caterpillars produced vibrations." She also noted that they reside in solitude on birch leaves, ...
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