Ant Lion
the larva of an insect of neuroptera, remarkable for its ingenious methods of capturing ants and other insects, on which it feeds, by makother insects, on which it feeds, by makare common in North America. The perfect insect is about an inch long, and has a general resemblance to the dragon-fly.
It feeds upon the juices of insects, especially ants, in order to obtain which it cially ants, in order to obtain which it in sandy ground, and lies in wait at the bottom. When insects approach too near to the edge of the hole, the loose sand gives way, so that they fall down the ANTLERS OF AMERICAN RED DEER AT steep slope. If they do not fall quite to VARIOUS STAGES as weapons in fighting for possession of the females. They appear as a pair of knobs covered with dark skin, from the females. They appear as a pair of which the bony tissue is developed. In the bottom, but begin to scramble up them by jerking his head, and thus brings again, the ant-lion throws sand upon them back. It employs its head in the pit, after their juices have been sucked. same way to eject their bodies from its ANTOFAGASTA