₦airaland Forum

I will never forgive mynd44 and maclatunji ... these guys don use ban ...

Yes oooo ... you, the tortoise gave the hare N500k for his mother's burial. We hear .... Nigeria, Obodo iduu na oba

Aataaaaam Cucumber Chidimma!

Haba! Mama and pikin no fit quarel again?

Close that smelly buccal cavity and do something tangible about the already dead economy. All of you politicians are the same and only deserve to be wiped out. Whatever and however you treat jonathan interests nobody. If you like sef start the arrest from Lugard. What interests us is the right economic policy for the citizens to create wealth and escape this your artificial famine

Una Cross, una golgotha. Every abokki with im kettle. Make i ready com dey go shursh

That car na BOAT enjine for area o! Thief no dey use eye see am for warri ... na onle the enjine dem go collect for boat, com scrap the bodi

Now where is that Nairaland town crier sef? . Abeg, Keneking come help me call Lalasticlala , mynd44 and seun. No forget to come with Ikenga your monkey son o!

Beneficial Role

The larval stages are beneficial to man because of their diet. Larvae are well-known for feeding on ants. Moreover, as Ant Lion larvae increase in size, they become quite capable of capturing and killing a variety of other insects that enter their sand traps. One entomologist reported that he maintained Ant Lion larvae for laboratory study by feeding them �.... a diet of one house cricket nymph per day.� Ant Lion larvae have also been reported to feed on the dreaded red imported fire ant. Ant Lion larvae also feed on small spiders.

The ability to subdue prey much larger than itself is due, in part, to its entire body being covered in stiff bristles that helps anchor it to the sand while countering the fleeing efforts of its prey. In fact, the bristles are forward-pointing, which provides additional leverage to firmly anchor its body against the vigorous struggles of its prey.

Ant Lion larvae are truly one of the most fascinating of insect predators. They do occur in the Galveston-Houston region but not abundantly but we do have specimens in our insect collection. Ant Lions are more prevalent in areas with sandier soils than in our region. Consequently, Ant Loins are more frequently encountered in the Piney Woods (East Texas), the Hill Country (central Texas) and the Texas Central Gulf Coast region.

Source:

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/beneficials/beneficial-32_ant_lion.htm

Life Cycle

The larva is a fearsome-appearing creature and its head bears a very impressive and sizable pair of sicklelike jaws (known as mandibles) that are armed with numerous sharp, hollow projections. The mandibles have a piercing-sucking function. After seizing its prey, the larva paralyzes it with poison injected at the first bite. Additional digestive enzymes are injected to breakdown the internal tissues of its prey and the larva then sucks out its vital juices. After consuming the liquefied contents of the prey�s body, an Ant Lion larva rather unceremoniously flicks the lifeless, drained carcass out of the pit. Thereafter, the larva repairs the pit once again for the next unsuspecting victim.

Ant Lion larvae eventually pupate in the soil. Adults resemble dragonflies and damselflies except the Ant Lion folds its wings back in a tent-like fashion while resting. Adults are rarely encountered in the wild because they are primarily active in the evening. During the day, Ant Lions rest and are usually motionless and quite well-camouflaged by its transparent wings and brownish body. Also in contrast to dragonflies and damselflies, the antennae of ant-lion adults are quite prominent and club-shaped at the end.

Have you ever heard of a "doodlebug"? It is actually the larvae of an insect commonly known as an Ant Lion (also spelled as �ant-lion� and �antlion�). Ant Lions are a group of insects in the Order Neuroptera. Within this order, they are further classified into Family Myrmeleontidae, which is of Greek origin from myrmex, meaning "ant", and leon, meaning "lion".

Technically speaking, the term Ant Lion applies to the immature or larval stages of the members of this family. Ant Lion larvae are predatory while the adult stage feeds on nectar and pollen. Larvae are voracious predator of ants and other small insects that become entrapped in the conical pits constructed by Ant Lion larvae.
Ant Lion larvae (Myrmeleon sp.) are also known as doodlebugs. This nickname is apparently in reference to the randomly winding and spiraling trails that young larvae make in the sand while seeking a suitable location to construct its larval home. The trails look like someone has been idly doodling in the sand! The larvae�s home in the sand is also a novel insect trap known as a pit.

Sand Pits

Pits have the shape of an inverted cone. The pits are found in dry places that are sheltered from exposure to high winds and intense sunlight. Pits are oftentimes constructed under the shelter of farm buildings, under houses that are on piers, etc. These pits are usually 1� to 2 inches in diameter and about the same depth. (Some Ant Lion species also hide under bits of debris or wood and attack passing insects.)

The Ant Lion larva waits at the bottom of its pit for an ant or other insect to slip on the loose sand and fall in. The unsuspecting prey falls to the center of the pit and into the waiting jaws of the Ant Lion larva, mealtime is underway! Prey will oftentimes attempt to scramble up the steeply inclined walls of the pit. Such desperate efforts to escape its circumstance are typically to no avail. An Ant Lion larva quickly thwarts such escape attempts by rapidly flicking showers of loose sand, which further destabilizes the wall of a pit and thereby draws the prey downwards.

Always burrowing in the sand. Tends to move backwards all the time, even when you have it in your palms. I think Michael Jackson copied the moonwalk from this little guys

We call them "kpupku m pku ogele" in Enugu back then. . But this is actually the ANTLION LAVAE

Lets see them old skul pipo

Good!
Thats the people's punishment for voting APC, Oba i support you 100%

Oba atopkee ..... iseeeee!

redcliff:
Wer hat ihr herkunftsland geholfen?

Ouga waga arka bangar, irk irk humbidi huu?

Tolexander:
imagine!

No affiliation to her origin(Nigeria) writen in the website.

If na 15 own goals she scored now, then you see Nigeria/nigerian appearing many times on the write up

Just like NCAN will always masturbate over bad news and go ghost mode with good news

Okezie you try, but visible "work" has stopped in Aba for a long time now. No access road to even get to the shoemakers you are advertising for. Talk about the cart before the horse. Absurd to say the least

IMPOVERISHMENT 101 Policy of APC GOVERNMENT!

First , create artificial famine in the land ... then tighten it more ... and even some more ... then the people will be willing to take any trash you throw at them like lepers or they hang.

ALMAJIRI MENTALITY SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE courtesy of BUHHARI AND HIS "CHAIN" GANG.

Make the Economy stable and favourable and the people will create their own wealth ... BUHHARI stop thinking through your anus

Buhari is in charge

sarrki:
No one is bigger than Nigeria

Exactly my point.

Make she still sue them for another $200billion. Yeye dey ooze

Ok

Thieves!
Na their way .... some lost followers are still out there gropping in the dark

Thats great
Sarrki, buzz me when it debuts

ASSenal is going down ... GGMU the G.O.A.Ts!

Patience Jonathan is simply senseless. A ticking time bomb. Always in the news for wrong reasons.

Where is sarrki sef?

modath:
Bwaaaahahahhaha Mido, why are you laidis nah?



Omenka, abeg come & join me laugh, e pass Mo.

What made you think that statement is funny? Lumping millions of people together and mocking them gives you happiness? And you might even be educated a woman at that

midolian:
The Igbos of Israel know the real source of her wealth. Give them a few more minutes, they ll soon be here

I am a proud igbo ... just dont be stupid by lumping everybody together. Senseless blanket statement

morbeta:
She brought the dirty fight upon herself. Silence could have paid her immensely.

No mind that mannerless mad woman

E concern dem

Unfortunate i'd say

sarrki:
Fayemi stop yearning opata


Prove with documentation


No be by English

Abuja minister

Fayemi is innocent abeg .. they only want to drag him in the mud