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 ...

Antlions, one of the most nightmarish insect predators, perform a constructional “conjuring trick” to build their deadly pit traps, scientists have discovered. Laboratory experiments showed how they ...

An antlion larva. (Credit: George Wilkinson) The lair of an antlion looks like nothing more than a pit from above. To an ant walking on the surface, it probably looks like nothing at all. But one ...

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, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Predators use different foraging modes, ranging from active to ambush predation. We investigated the predatory behaviour of two antlion ...

Something was fluttering clumsily near my tent. That evening in Canyonlands was too cold for sustained insect flight, but nevertheless it repeatedly tried to lift off. A macro photo provided a close ...

The larvae of antlions are sometimes referred to as "doodlebugs" because of the meandering trails some species leave in the sand as they wander around looking for a place to settle in and find some ...