A 'Pleasing Picture'...

I just noticed a 'Congrats' email from Blip...so this Little Cutie will represent  my 4,380th consecutive entry. Yeah!
This sweet-looking small (2.5in body length) winged creature was resting on one of our window screens. It's a Pleasing Picture-winged Antlion, Glenurus gratus... which means pleasing, agreeable or grateful. This is my first time photographing and identifying one.The antlions I'm familiar with from my childhood are small (pencil eraser size) wingless earth dwellers called 'doodlebugs'. They dig small cone-shaped indentions in the sand and wait for ants to lose their footing, sliding down to the open jaws of the antlion! But that's a story for another day. 
The Pleasing Antlion's larval stage lives in hollow tree trunks and eat ants, beetle larvae and termites. Adults dine on aphids and caterpillars.  Yum! m

'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.'
__Henry David Thoreau