If the leaves on your houseplant look stippled or distorted, the plant may have fallen victim to mites, specifically spider ...

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking ...

If people or other large animals disturb their web, they usually flee from the part that moved. They're more likely to bite if they have an egg sac. Where black widows live in Redding: These spiders ...

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 ...

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The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...

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 ...

Spiders provoke diverse emotions ranging from fascination to fear, yet these remarkable arachnids contribute significantly to various ecosystems, primarily through their intricate web designs. Webs ...