Usually means: Insect larva digs pitfall traps.
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  2. antlion: Collins English Dictionary
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noun:  Any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.

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