Crazy About Birds

By Kimb

Antlion! Glenurus Gratus

I saw this thing fly gently away while I was outside a little while ago and managed to get a very bad photo of it with my phone before it moved on and disappeared. An image search with Google tells me that it's a "pleasing picture-winged antlion" - Something entirely new to me. It's a lousy picture, I know - but the only one I got, and at least good enough to figure out what it was! Wikipedia says people thing they're dragonflies or damselflies, but they are not! The name "antlion" is more to do with their larvae - which are predators of ants and other insects.

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