A fierce looking insect, the antlion lives in ambush holes in the earth waiting for, you guessed it, ants to drop in! Stuart McCausland cq photographed this antlion and several others along with lots ...

If you've ever seen small, cone-shaped pits in fine soil or sand, you've likely found an antlion trap. These pit-building insect larvae hide beneath the surface, waiting to ambush ants and other small ...

If you are like me, you might have thought these conical pits were a type of ant hill. Quite to the contrary, as unsuspecting ants that stumble into the pit slide to the bottom, they are quickly ...

Antlions or doodlebugs (Myrmeleon immaculatus) are tiny insect larvae that dig funnel-shaped pits in sandy soil in areas protected from wind and direct rainfall. If you have a sharp eye, you can find ...

“Look at all the antlions you have,” Tavares resident Mike Endres said, pointing at the sandy ground surrounding our bamboo gazebo. “You must know all about antlions.” Staring at the patch of ...

A team of biologists and physicists, led by the University of Bristol, have uncovered new insights into how antlions - one of the fiercest and most terrifying predators in the insect kingdom - build ...

If you are an outdoorsy person, you would have sometimes noticed tiny, 3-inch wide conical pits on the ground. Seen where the soil is loose, these spiral, conical holes are created by a tiny, oval, ...

What causes those conical divots in the soft, dry soil beneath large conifers in the mountains and at the bases of cliffs on the Colorado Plateau? They presented a mystery when I first noticed them, ...

Varying between organisms, the number of chromosomes are normally a constant amount within a species, thus allowing for its successful reproduction. However, it may vary greatly even within a certain ...

Varying between organisms, the number of chromosomes, the structures of organised and packaged DNA information, are normally a constant amount, thus allowing for the successful reproduction of a ...