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 ...

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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 ...