アリジゴク(ウスバカゲロウの仲間の幼虫)の飼育を開始。神社の縁の下で見つけた巣から乾いた土ごと採集。茶漉しで篩いに掛けて土を細かくし、プラスチック円筒容器(直径8cm、高さ8cm)に半分ぐらいの深さまで入れた。アリジゴクを地表に置いてからすり鉢状の巣穴を掘る様子をwebカメラで微速度撮影してみた(3時間10分)。反時計回りに初めは大きく次第に小さく螺旋状に後退しながら砂粒を外に跳ね飛ばし掘り進む。実はもう一匹居るのだが置いた直後に中に潜った切り地表に出てこなかった。空腹の個体ほど大きなすり鉢を作るらしい(個体サイズには無関係)。
Antlion larva making a conical pitfall. The event of 3hr 10min was compressed into 37sec footage. The cylindrical container was 8cm in diameter. Early-June, 2007 in Japan.
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I've just made another time lapse movie of my antlion. It has grown quite a bit by now; the funnel is much larger. I posted the video as a response to yours. Cheers!
delphidorcus 3 years ago
hello.
i enjoyed and appreciated ur new vid very much.
cheerio!
sigma1920 3 years ago
i've got some antlions at home :) I'm gonna take care of 'em :D
enar12345 3 years ago
that's cool!
plz be sure to take good care of them and post a vid of ur pet lions.
sigma1920 3 years ago
Antlions are really neat insects! :D
DunemaulFTW 4 years ago
if you are interested in the engineering secret of their quicksand trap, check out the entry of "angle of repose" in wikipedia.
sigma1920 4 years ago