This gives a local population one chance at surviving, if there is not enough ragwort in the area, then this beautiful species will become locally extinct. They do not fly far, and so it is unlikely ...

Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Construction equipment maker Caterpillar (CAT) on Wednesday reported a bigger first-quarter sales decline than analysts had forecast. The company posted ...

Caterpillar Inc.’s stock fell Wednesday after the maker of earth-moving equipment said that it’s facing hundreds of millions of dollars in tariff costs in the coming quarter but that it is ...

Caterpillar is anticipating a cost headwind of between $250 million and $350 million in the second quarter of 2025 as a result of a global trade war sparked by President Donald Trump. The ...

Nicknamed the "bone collector," this rare caterpillar is as elusive as it is eerie, and may be unlike anything the scientific world has seen before. The caterpillar cloaks itself in the body parts ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the "bone collector." The insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It creeps along spiderwebs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, rare and bizarre species of carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars. After hatching, the tiny insects live almost their entire lives in the web of a ...

Carnivorous caterpillars discovered on the Hawaiian island of Oahu have a freaky fashion sense. Cases of “the bone collector,” an extremely rare carnivorous caterpillar that decorates itself ...

A new species of carnivorous caterpillar calls a counterintuitive place home: a spider’s lair. The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered ...

Scientists have discovered a rare and ancient lineage of caterpillar in Hawaii that wears the “bones” of insects as a form of camouflage. Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa ...