(3) Its father handed him to Mr King, then a 15-year-old bread delivery boy, after the doodlebug crashed into land behind Old Tye Avenue, Biggin Hill. (2) The doodlebug 's flaming engine cut out and it turned to glide in our direction. Or, you can use a spoon or your fingers to scoop up the sand at the bottom of the pit, and then sift it gently to unearth the hidden doodlebug.(1) Originally set in a military hospital during the Blitz in 1941, the film relocates the action to a civilian emergency hospital during the doodlebug campaign of 1944.
If there's an antlion lying-in-wait, it may just grab hold. If you want to see a doodlebug, you can try luring one out of its trap by lightly disturbing the sand with a pine needle or a piece of grass. Although its head is tiny, the antlion bears disproportionately large, sickle-shaped mandibles, with which it quickly grabs the doomed ant. When the doodlebug senses the disturbance, it will usually kick sand in the air to further confuse the poor ant and to accelerate its descent into the abyss. Should an ant or other insect wander up to the pit's edge, the movement will start a cascade of sand sliding into the pit, often causing the ant to fall into the trap. After constructing a new pitfall trap, the doodlebug lies in wait at the bottom of the pit, hidden beneath the sand.
Have you ever hiked a sandy path, and noticed clusters of perfectly conical pits about 1-2 inches in width along the ground? Those are antlion pits, built by the chubby doodlebug to trap ants and other prey.
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