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ant lion larva make these pits and when ants or other small insects happen to stumble over thee edge the larva kicks up sand to make the ant lose footing. Kind of like one of the creatures out of star wars
Spotted on Dec 25, 2011
Submitted on Feb 1, 2012
2 Comments
I have always loved these. As a kid I once used a sifter and dug one up to see what it looked like. Very very sci-fi looking critter. Then I let him go to watch him redig his pit
cool ,
we have loads to these in our parts and always wanted to upload one