A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts. In their ...

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 and ...

Like many geographically-isolated locations, Hawai'i is an extraordinary evolutionary site that contains many unusual invertebrates. In 2025, a research article led by Daniel Rubinoff in the journal ...

On a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu, scientists have identified a species of carnivorous caterpillar with a macabre lifestyle: it lives in cobwebs and feasts on weakened or dead ...

Explore the fascinating world of the 10 weirdest insects and discover their unusual adaptations and strange behaviours ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged body ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have cast new light on why the giant insects that lived millions of years ago disappeared. In the late Paleozoic Era, with ...