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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An antlion (Euroleon nostras) waits in its sand pit for prey insects that fall or run into the funnel. Normally you can only see its sickle-like pincers sticking out of the sand. The larvae of ...

Researchers show that the adaptation of antlions to their ecological niche has also changed their venom. They compared the venom system of antlion and closely related green lacewing larvae. Antlions ...