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Carnivorous ‘Bone Collector’ Caterpillars Wear Corpses as Camouflage


Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by covering itself with dead insect body parts

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