In areas of soil protected from the rain, we find antlion pits in our yard…
These are traps, dug and maintained and occupied by the larvae of the family Myrmeleontidae. When a passing insect stumbles in, the antlion will throw sand grains and cause the hapless bug to tumble down, where the antlion snags it with a monstrous pair of jaws, and eats it.
The adults look like your standard insect; the larvae look like something out of HP Lovecraft. I tried digging some up to photograph, but either I didn’t go deep enough, or they were too quick for me. So for now, these traces of the animal will have to do…
