Antlion Traps and Devours Victim | Empire of the Desert Ants | BBC Earth

concealed beneath the sand is a stealthy hunter an antlion unseen they dig traps to snare their victims first the antlion larva scribes a circle on the ground then digging deeper it spirals in towards the center once finished the predator buries itself at the base and waits the angle of the slope is just the right side of unstable put one foot wrong and it becomes a slippery slope to a nightmarish end [Music] [Music] the antlion toys with its prey maneuvering the ant into position to administer the kilobyte paralyzed by the injected poison the victim is dragged underground and its vital juices sucked out [Music]

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 351,214

Rating: 4.9076171 out of 5

Keywords: bbc documentary, bbc, bbcearth, bbc earth, antlion vs ant, antlion cone death trap, Empire of the desert ants, Natural world, natural history, ant documentary, ant colony, antlion (organism classification)

Id: MedF-al1quU

Length: 2min 16sec (136 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 22 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Dodgy_Bob_McMayday]

For an embarrassingly long time I thought they were things that only existed in Half Life 2, as opposed to being actual real life creatures

[u/Wolverwings]

My dad had dozens of Ant lions in his backyard this year. My kids had fun feeding them.

[u/sumarian421]

Umm these came from final fantasy 4 gd it

[u/fightfarmersfight]

These are everywhere where I’m from

[u/KingDerivative]

It’s a trap!

[u/th3ramr0d]

East Texas as a child we would crawl under our trailer to feed the dozens of ant lions. When you’re poor you find ways to have fun.

[u/I_Cant_Think_Funny]

Poor Lazslo. The finest mind of his generation.