Flesh, thot and cruel: their “houses” are dressed and decorated The remains of the bodies of their prey They did not swallow. CaterpillarScientists have nicknamed these new species, which have been found on the slope of a mountain on the island of Ohulu, Hawkai.
It’s a type of caterpillar Is very rare Researchers have been able to notice only 62 people during the field work in this concrete area of Hawalu Island, which has the highest population in Hawaii. This Thursday describes it in an article of the magazine Science.
Caterpillar Osteopse Vis Exclusively in spider clothes Continue to stop the clothes in search of insects that are trapped in the holes and rock cracks of the trees between the mountains.
“They are gardeners, hunters and opportunists. They live in closed spider clothes, where they eat weak or dead insects, including hidden spider dams. Sometimes they are. Narayamism is done between them“One of the teachers, Daniel Rubinoff, points out the biologist at the University of Huawei in Manoa.
Taste for specific clothing and decoration
Its many integrity include its styles. “They are dressed in the remnants of their prey,” researchers explain. These have called their attention to their taste Decorate your silk boxes closely Portables with parts of the body of insects I do not have: choosing them, measuring them, and carefully adjusting them, is probably a form of cruel moon to avoid being detected by guest spiders.
Although this elusive species may be five million years older than the island of Hawaii, it is currently surviving A small 15 -cilometer plot Squares of mountain forests on the island of Ohulu.
Isolated unique species
Hawaii’s geographical isolation contains vertebrates with a unique adaptation, including a variety of meat caterpillars, such as the Huawei thumb worm. Eupithecia spp. The surprise is that most of the lepidoptera species They are the specifics; Looter caterpillars today refer to about 0.1% of about 200,000 varieties of moths and butterflies.
According to Rubinof, the Caterpillar (Belonging to hyposmocoma, a Old and diverted moths It is only found in Hawaii) Suitable for the use of unlike host spiders.
However, the same Extreme rare and imprisonment In one place, it is easily affected by many threats, such as invasion hunting and habitat loss, which takes other Hawaii pests to destruction. The authors warn, “Without specific security efforts, these caterpillars, the last life representatives of an ancient lineage, gathering the collection of the collection, They may disappear Calmly “.
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