‘Spiral digging’ ensures prey have no chance once they stumble into an antlion pit, a study has shown. Antlions, one of the most nightmarish insect predators, perform a constructional “conjuring trick ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Antlion larvae, along with other trap-building predators, offer a compelling model for exploring the interplay between behaviour, morphology and environment in sit-and-wait predation. These organisms ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Giessen report in a new study in Communications Biology, that the adaptation of antlion larvae to their ecological ...