The lair of an antlion looks like nothing more than a pit from above. To an ant walking on the surface, it probably looks like nothing at all. But one wrong step can send an unfortunate insect tumbling to the bottom of a clever trap in a shower of sand. There, a pair of merciless jaws await, held wide open to deliver a deadly embrace.

To those of us with even a bit of pop culture knowledge, the pits the insects dig look suspiciously familiar. If you’re waiting for a forest of tentacles an