”Adult antlion”

In the woods after the rainy season. A lacewings fluttered among the trees with its wings shining. The larva is known as the antlion. It creates a mortar-shaped nest on the sand and waits for the small insects to fall in it. It grows by feeding those insects. Around the end of the rainy season, the antlion who has accumulated enough power, transforms into the lacewing with beautiful transparent wings.  [JULY 2021]

Hagenomyia micans

ウスバカゲロウは、その幼虫がアリなどの昆虫を捕食するアリジゴクとして知られています。梅雨の終わり頃、アリジゴクは真夜中にウスバカゲロウへ変わります。林内をきらきらと翅を煌めかせてはばたく姿はきれいです。