lion-ant

I was interested by finding here the hollow conical pitfall of the lion-ant, or some other insect: first

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

This Australian pitfall was only about half the size of that made by the European lion-ant.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

This Australian pitfall was only about half the size of that made by the European lion-ant.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

I was interested by finding here the hollow conical pitfall of the lion-ant, or some other insect: first

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

This Australian pitfall was only about half the size of that made by the European lion-ant.

Chapter XIX 1909

I was interested by finding here the hollow conical pitfall of the lion-ant, or some other insect; first a fly fell down the treacherous slope and immediately disappeared; then came a large but unwary ant; its struggles to escape being very violent, those curious little jets of sand, described by Kirby and Spence (Entomol., vol.i. p. 425) as being flirted by the insect’s tail, were promptly directed against the expected victim.

Chapter XIX 1909

And yet, unlike so many lodging-house keepers, resembling more the lion-ant than any other of the symbolic world of insects, they were strictly honest.

Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864

I was interested by finding here the hollow conical pitfall of the lion-ant, or some other insect: first a fly fell down the treacherous slope and immediately disappeared; then came a large but unwary ant; its struggles to escape being very violent, those curious little jets of sand, described by Kirby and Spence

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845