Everything about Hyposmocoma Molluscivora totally explained
Hyposmocoma molluscivora is a
Hawaiian
moth whose
larvae are
predators, capturing
snails in their
silk, much like a hunting spider's web, and then crawling inside the snail's shell to eat it alive. It has been called the snail eating caterpillar or the flesh-eating caterpillar, though no common name has been widely prescribed to it.
They are case bearing moths, spinning a loose shell of their own which they carry around with them as protection, like
bagworms. The specific snails they eat are of the
Tornatellides genus.
The caterpillar, which lives exclusively on the island of
Maui, is about long, and sometimes decorate their silk case with actual snail shells, perhaps as
camouflage.
There are about 200 species of
Lepidoptera (moths or butterflies) whose larva are predatory, out of 150,000 known Leptidoptera species overall. However, this is one of the 4 known species that eat snails.
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