From Larva to Adult: A Brief Natural History of the Antlion Pt. 2
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Antlions are the larval stage of lacewing like insects in the family Myrmeleontidae. They make their living as sit-and-wait predators, catching and eating ants. This video shows their transformation from sit-and-wait predator to winged adult insect.
Written, shot, edited, and produced by Adrian Smith / dradriansmith
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I remember feeding them as a kid in the summer. I was the weird kid that watched the dirt. They are an impressive species to watch.
You're not weird jim, you know you're something of a scientist yourself
I did the same. Dug them out once or twice to see the "creature" and looked them up in some books my parents had, as it was prior to public internet and cell phones, back in "the dark" ages, lol.
Felt bad for the ants so we would dig them out and go to town with sticks.
As a kid I remember seeing ants crawling around antlion nest ... watching ants fall in the pits and the hidden antlion pulls the ants in the sand pit! Awesome!
How stupid can an ant be?
That's not cool that's horrifying 😨😨😨
You just watched? I am a criminal. I put the ants in the nests. 😅
@@leobadajos1008 same 🤣
@@leobadajos1008while you help these antlions comment crimes I have never seen an antlion irl
Congratulations! Your Trapinch evolved into Vibrava!
Congratulations! Your Vibrava evolved into Flygon!
Exact reason why I'm here
Lol I love pokemon
Have you ever used flygon in your team?? Trust me it's a great pokemon I used it in my nuzlocke of ruby and my god this thing was a beast 😱😱😱
i had NO IDEA..
Thanks for this video. I was super confused as to why an Antlion goes from being a sneaky killer to just an insect that flies around and doesn't seem to have any ways of killing prey.
It's my first time seeing an adult antlion. Thank you for this
same
I collected a few and put them into a sand filled tank. I remember when they disappeared into sandy balls and then there were dead "drangonflies" in the tank and no antlions to be found.. I hypothesized it was a form of metamorphosis. Such surreal little creatures...
i feel lucky to grow up a 90s kid!
Its a pokémon :o
Trapinch is based on Ant lions.
That's why I'm here. Googled antlion after watching this: th-cam.com/video/BraYqeJF9to/w-d-xo.html
Freedom Anderson
Vibrava and Flygon too.
Antlion Larva, Antlion Charger and Antlion Swarmer are from Terraria and searched for this expecting Terraria comments
I'm disappointed
Yeah it was a trapinch it evolved to vibrava and then finally evolved into beautiful flygon
After binge-watching half your videos I've gotten a strong urge to start keeping an ant colony...
Wonderful videos either way! As someone highly interested in entomology I adore them all!
Thanks!
@@AntLab Would you be able to point me in the right direction regarding bull ants nest removal? I live in South Australia my neighbour has a nest in the middle of her front yard. She has tried to drown them bleach them and so on. I've talked her down for now but we never see these ants much here and its a shame if they die just because people don't understand them.
when i was a small kid i often saw this larva's trap house and was wondering what the inhabitant was like. Thanks for sharing.
Don't step on the sand, it makes the antlions crazy!
Dear God! Poor Laszlo! The finest mind of his generation, comes to such an end.
My four year old and myself just learned something new together -that antlions grow wings.
I don’t usually find this stuff interesting but some of the way these animals adapted is insane
I am just here to confirm, that these things are really the inspiration for Astel, Naturalborn of the Void.
Same
Wow, it's Trapinch evolving into Vibrava then Flygon.
Great vid and outstanding cinematography.
Wow seeing this is just shocking and amazing. It's cool to see this Inspire the Flygon evolution line in Pokémon
What if, when looking for a perch, it falls into a neighbouring antlion dungeon? 😈
Lmao
It’s like if excadrill evolved into yanmega
As a kid I always throught that the adult one is the mixture of dragonfly and butterflies
I even considered it as the queen of dragonflies 😂
antloins? someone activate the thumpers quick!
Clicked on this after having my mind blown on the "whatisthisbug" subreddit... Totally a TIFO moment.
ITS SO CHUNKY I LOVE IT
Well you answered my question as to how such a stubby little ant lion can metamorphose into such a large-ish insect with huge wings. I recently caught one of the adults fluttering around on the sandy soil in my lawn, it kept sticking its back side into the sand, presumable depositing eggs. You weren't lying about them being clumsy flyers, they almost seem barely able to fly. the one I found was all over the place. I was surprised that they actually enlarge their body when they emerge.
Wow! Absolutely amazing video. I have always been interested in entomology. It's just really nice.
Can you do a video about owlflies next? Because we a know very little about the larvae.
Thank you!
I didn't even know there was such an insect.
1:12 proceeds to smack itself on the wall...
Unbeatable when it's a larvae and becomes a food in adulthood
Wow interesting!!
What about owlfly?
I expected some Half-Life content but got Real Life instead
They go from fearsome predator to a bad at flying bug
Inspiration the the Trapinch Evolution line
Fallingstar Beast lore
I learn about Antlion when I was 12 with a Doraemon Manga
It was cool
Gordon, watch out for the antlions!
Astel brought me to here
Same
Did that bug just grow useless wings
Wow I didn't know it will evolve
What happens if an adult antlion lands in the pit of a larval antlion?
I imagine cannibalism
@@Uyango
I wonder if a larvae eating its metamorphosised self is considered cannibalism..? Lol
@@paocpd Of course it is, they're the same species.
So adult antlions don't feed on anything?
Not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't
@Matthew Smith, yes. They don't care about anything but sex.
Except in Half Life 2, they do.
They eat pollen and nectar.
@@AntLab They eat pollen and nectar.
Well that got explains the weird Dragon fly like things I see at night
Always reffered to them as mosquito hawks, still dont know if they actually eat mosquitos or not.
Terraria Antlion lore
Bananas when they try to get more ripe
What do adult lion ant eat ? Help
Nectar and pollen.
احب هذه الحشرة ودائماً ما العب معها 😂
I'm here because of Trapinch
I guess I'm not the only one who watched and messed with these bugs. I had no idea they were larvae.
Tell that to flygon
How to make bug bait
Elden Ring
am I the only that tought this video was about half-life?
This just reminds me of half life
same someone activate the thumpers quick!
Definitely came here from pokemon
Trapinch pokemon! So cool on what it's based on
0:50 you said "blood." Does it have blood?
They have hemolymph, a blood-like substance found in arthropods.
It is a new piece of information for me that in English there are 2 words: dragonflies and damselflies. As far as I understand they distinguish anisoptera and zygoptera. In Russian they both are called by the same common name стрекоза in everyday language, though specialists distinguish them, laypeople do not.
tHis nOt hAlF LiFe!!!!1!!
Basically flygon
I put the ants in the nest and when antlion arrives, I hunt the hunter myself
I came here thinking of half life 2
Are you not able to tell how long an Antlion lives in it's puppetstatus? Or it's size?
Dude, your slow motion videos are awesome but these subtitles almost in the middle of the screen, spoils all the fun and footage. Hope you would shift them to the lowest possible position.
Hi, thanks for watching! TH-cam decides where to place the subtitles. I have no control over that. However, you can turn them on and off for each video. Subtitles don't have to be on.
1:13 Fail
The tail looks like a real gross blunt
wow i didnt know they existed in real life too
So they're dragonflies?
No. Antlions are lacewings not dragonflies.
@@Euph_-v- they look like dragonflies though
Terraria….?
12.9.23😮
ANTLIONS ARE JUST YOUNG DRAGONFLIES??!!?!!!?
No. Antlions belong to the lacewing order and their closest relatives are the owlflies. Dragonflies and damselflies belong to their own superorder that is fairly removed from most other living insect groups.
Antlion larvae are cooler.
Tiny real sarlacc pits
Bro the adults are so weak but the larva are kinda top tier
I killed many antlions
On half life 2
Terraria fr
Antlion Larvae's home visit
👉 th-cam.com/video/zs84AHcI15s/w-d-xo.html
This is why the antlion is inferior to the dragonfly, good early game but crapy late game
Its flygon
Man... kinda disappointed with what it turns into...
"A little less skilled when it comes to flying around"
So _that's_ why Vibrava and Flygon aren't Flying-types!
Wow cool. I never knew antlions became winged flyers!
So it’s a Predator and prey
So its the same kind of stand as star platinum
Boi yeets them carcasses out. 😂😂
Gosh darn campers
Ducky_ 6774 well this comment aged incredibly well
@@j.prt.979 Tierzoo invasion about to boost this comment up
Snowcold Oh yeah
soon they will leave Earth and go to Xen, evolve, then come back after some incident in the New Mexico desert, then portal storms, some alien empire comes along and takes over in 7 hours, then the ocean is lowered severely, and beyond cities, its called the outlands and there are antlions that are evolved.
Nice work Adrian!
Don't forget the part where it evolves into Flygon. XD
Do antlion larva prey on antlion adults if given the chance?
They’d probably try, but I doubt adults would spend too much time on the ground and around the larval pits.
yes
adults don't fly well
You'd think that a creature that lives for several years as a larva would have a better adult form.
That's what you get for spending all of your evolution points in larvae stats
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Wow i didn't think antlions become from a deadly predator to one that yeets away with wings... That's amazing! I thought he'd be stuck underground forever but that lifecycle is amazing
FROM SOFTWARE: that creature of nature and he's forms must be in Elden Ring.
1. Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast
2. Fallingstar Beast
3. Malformed Star
4. Astel, Stars of Darkness
5. Astel, Naturalborn of the Void
Cute
The equivalent of Gyranodos evolving into a Margikarp lmao. Badass to meh
They look so much like a damselfly they must be related to the damselfly and the dragonfly.
Tierzoo gang?
Here
yep
definition of peaking in highschool
the thing that i'm about to watch this video is giving me half-life 2 ep 2 vibes.
Finally a half life comment
I’m getting terraria vibes here
I first learned about these from grounded (the game) and was instantly hooked- so cool!
It looks like something out of Starship Troopers. Come on, you apes! You wanna live forever?
As kids we used to take grass seed shoots and get our spit on the end and try to catch the ant lions and pull them out of the sand. We also did the same thing with little holes we found in trees. We’d get these skinny grub looking things with giant pinchers
Flygon??