This footage captures the startling moment an ant lion manages to ambush and trap an ant from under the sand, dragging it down underneath into its waiting jaws. <br /><br />The creature manages to make small pits and dips in the sand to trap its prey. The ant starts to crawl out, before the filmmaker gives it a small nudge with a blade of grass. <br /><br />The ant falls back into the pit. But it remains lucky. The camera pans to a different pit, with a new ant in. This time nature takes its course: the ant lion manages to seize it, dragging it to its death under the sand. The process repeats with a different ant. <br /><br />"I knew about this creature from my childhood," said the filmer, 28-year-old Viktor Volodin. "I just walked along the shore of the reservoir [and] saw the characteristic funnels." <br /><br />Ant lions, or doodlebugs, are a kind of insect with intensely predatory larvae. The adults look a little like dragonflies.
