Antlion 🐜🦁

I know🙀what an amazing creature to find.
Sorta reminds me of a scene in “Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan” when Chekov meets Kahn.
Ricardo Montalban as Khan… I’m guessing there was an entomologist on the Star Trek production staff who knew about the Antlion larvae and suggested it for the scene.
🤍Don’t worry, I returned the Antlion to its burrow. The winged adult is delicate and doesn’t eat anything. Nocturnal and attracted to outside lights, you may have seen them. Now you know what they look like prior to metamorphosis. One of the round cocoons was just to the right of the Antlion I was messing with. Did you notice it?
For more info… 🐜
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[@OCDishChick]

Interesting

[@LVSpeedweLL]

oooh and scary too, in a science fiction sort of way😬😅… incredible how they become so delicate and ethereal as adults.

[@UK-Blue]

Scary looking bug! 🤗🐕🌌

[@LVSpeedweLL]

Fierce! imagine a little Ant or Cricket falling into the sand pit right into the jaws! 🙀 The adults are lovely 🤣 Happy Friday 💖🤗🐕

[@solarmicronovae]

Born again bugs.😄

[@LVSpeedweLL]

😅… they are fierce. One of them grabbed onto the grass. I didn’t anticipate it doing that, so wasn’t filming 🤦🏻‍♀missed the “action shot”… 🙏🏼💖

[@pumpkxnz_11]

its creepy at the first places but then it turns into an dragonfly??!!

[@LVSpeedweLL]

🙋🏻‍♀Hallo, 🐜🦁strange creature for sure. Though the adult form looks similar to a Damselfly, the Ant Lion adults are active at night and are not very good fliers. From what I’ve learned, the adults are not hunting for food like Dragonflies. Thanks for visiting my channel 🙏🏼

[@aseo3839]

Great video, I love antlions. It’s nice to see simple, clear education on them :) many places in the us call them doodlebugs because of the lines some species make in sand.

[@LVSpeedweLL]

Hey Aseo 🙋🏻‍♀️thanks for stopping in to visit. Hope wherever you are, you are warm and safe. I think Antlions are very cool creatures, so fierce in the juvenile stage, and so delicate as adults. 🙏🏼

[@joeschmoe2659]

What…. You’re telling me that frightening ant lion turns into a dragonfly?

[@LVSpeedweLL]

Mmmm no, not a Dragonfly, though it looks similar to a Damselfly… what I researched said they are nocturnal flyers and not eating anything as adults… maybe 🤔since they ate a lot as youngsters 😅 Dragonflies begin life underwater, climb up a reed, go through metamorphosis, emerging as beautiful fliers who continue to eat large quantities of insects. Happy Wednesday Joe! 🐫🐪 🙏🏼🤗💖

[@joeschmoe2659]

@@LVSpeedweLL happy hump daaaaaay 🐪🐪🐫🐪🐪! Wow that is great info!

[@MongoTheMad]

Those little things can be mean ! Tease the poor thing. Like poking a bear with a stick, but on a smaller scale. 🤣😇

[@LVSpeedweLL]

Just teased long enough to see if someone was home! And yeah, kinda like poking a Bear, those jaws are huge for the actual size of the insect. Scary 😧 critters. 🙏🏼💖🤗

[@MongoTheMad]

@@LVSpeedweLL 🙏💖🤗