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 ...

Here, Daniel Rubinoff and colleagues describe a newly discovered Hawai'ian predatory caterpillar species –the "bone collector" – which lives exclusively within spider webs tucked into tree hollows and ...

It is about the length of a fingernail and feeds on insects trapped in spider webs. “Only 0.13 per cent of all caterpillars on the planet are carnivorous,” says Rubinoff. “So it is ...

There it resides exclusively on cobwebs spun by spiders in logs and rock cavities. As the caterpillars skulk about the webs, they scavenge dead and dying insects and other arthropods ensnared in ...

Consider the incredible possibilities and potential applications if humans could naturally produce spider web like Spider-Man. Sensitive documents, including White House floor plans, improperly ...

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As the couple left the restaurant, the 66-year-old flipped off the cameras—strategically, of course—pressing her middle finger against her sunglasses in what might’ve been the most Madonna ...

spider webs offer many advantages making them an ideal host to other organisms, among which kleptoparasites are typically most abundant. Kleptoparasites that compete with spiders for prey, remove prey ...

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Walking into a spider web might make you panic, even if it’s only a few feet wide. Now imagine colliding into one over 80 feet long. That’s unlikely, but thanks to the Darwin’s bark spider ...