From Larva to Adult: A Brief Natural History of the Antlion Pt. 2 

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.

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!

Congratulations! Your Trapinch evolved into Vibrava! Congratulations! Your Vibrava evolved into Flygon!

It's my first time seeing an adult antlion. Thank you for this

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.

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

"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!

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!

I don’t usually find this stuff interesting but some of the way these animals adapted is insane

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.

Nice work Adrian!

Don't step on the sand, it makes the antlions crazy!

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

My four year old and myself just learned something new together -that antlions grow wings.

Boi yeets them carcasses out. 😂😂

Don't forget the part where it evolves into Flygon. XD

I am just here to confirm, that these things are really the inspiration for Astel, Naturalborn of the Void.

So it’s a Predator and prey

Clicked on this after having my mind blown on the "whatisthisbug" subreddit... Totally a TIFO moment.

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

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.

Gosh darn campers

antloins? someone activate the thumpers quick!

1:12 proceeds to smack itself on the wall...

Wow, it's Trapinch evolving into Vibrava then Flygon.

ITS SO CHUNKY I LOVE IT

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

You'd think that a creature that lives for several years as a larva would have a better adult form.

I first learned about these from grounded (the game) and was instantly hooked- so cool!

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

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!

It’s like if excadrill evolved into yanmega

What if, when looking for a perch, it falls into a neighbouring antlion dungeon? 😈

Unbeatable when it's a larvae and becomes a food in adulthood

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.

They look so much like a damselfly they must be related to the damselfly and the dragonfly.

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 😂

They go from fearsome predator to a bad at flying bug

That video was perfect

I expected some Half-Life content but got Real Life instead

Wow interesting!! What about owlfly?

Do antlion larva prey on antlion adults if given the chance?

Inspiration the the Trapinch Evolution line

Fallingstar Beast lore

Its flygon

Gordon, watch out for the antlions!

Did that bug just grow useless wings

I learn about Antlion when I was 12 with a Doraemon Manga It was cool

It looks like something out of Starship Troopers. Come on, you apes! You wanna live forever?

The equivalent of Gyranodos evolving into a Margikarp lmao. Badass to meh

Astel brought me to here

Bananas when they try to get more ripe

So adult antlions don't feed on anything?

Terraria Antlion lore

Wow I didn't know it will evolve

Elden Ring

Antlion Larvae's home visit 👉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zs84AHcI15s.html

What do adult lion ant eat ? Help

I'm here because of Trapinch

Flygon??

احب هذه الحشرة ودائماً ما العب معها 😂

Tell that to flygon

I guess I'm not the only one who watched and messed with these bugs. I had no idea they were larvae.

What happens if an adult antlion lands in the pit of a larval antlion?

tHis nOt hAlF LiFe!!!!1!!

Well that got explains the weird Dragon fly like things I see at night

1:13 Fail

definition of peaking in highschool

Definitely came here from pokemon

the thing that i'm about to watch this video is giving me half-life 2 ep 2 vibes.

am I the only that tought this video was about half-life?

0:50 you said "blood." Does it have blood?

Basically flygon

Trapinch pokemon! So cool on what it's based on

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.

How to make bug bait

Super epic animal

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.

Tierzoo gang?

This just reminds me of half life

I came here thinking of half life 2

12.9.23😮

Terraria….?

I put the ants in the nest and when antlion arrives, I hunt the hunter myself

I’m getting terraria vibes here

Cute

Are you not able to tell how long an Antlion lives in it's puppetstatus? Or it's size?

Man... kinda disappointed with what it turns into...

Yes, feed it to the ants

Undur Undur ternyata kalo gede jadi Capung 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

wow i didnt know they existed in real life too

👍😊

Antlion larvae are cooler.

Terraria fr

Hm? It’s a ditto!!! Everybody else:ditto? You:oh god...

Ik how to catch and ant lion had larva form so you mess up the hole an little bit then where the movement is at that's where hes at

One of theese came to from my window and I don't know how it got here I live in a 3rd story apartment 🤷‍♂️😂😂