They may look like a pile of insect parts—but bone collector caterpillars are actually cleverly camouflaged critters. These rare carnivorous caterpillars are a newly described species in Hawaiʻi. Whatever they don’t eat they use to decorate silk cases that cover their bodies, which entomologists believe help them hide from spiders. When studying them in the lab, researchers noticed that they would sometimes engage in cannibalism when sharing a space. In this clip, at 2x speed, one caterpillar at

Watch the wiggly caterpillars grow huge as they absorb the water! 🐛 . This is so much fun and so easy to do, especially if you get the kids involved in the colouring! . Once the kitchen towel has been decorated with felt tips wrap it around a skewer or something similar. Don’t wrap it too tightly as it won’t work as well. Push both ends up on the skewer to make the caterpillar as small as possible before pushing it off the skewer. . Lay the caterpillars on the PlayTRAY lid and invite them to sq