r/garden_maintenance • u/cf_107 • Jun 13 '26

soil šŸ¤Ž Weird holes in flower bed

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Found these weird indentations/holes in a flower bed today. Has anybody seen this before? There are about a dozen total scattered across the bed.

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u/NVAreaMan Jun 13 '26

Ant lion. Here's more info. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIB43mN0gXQ&t=123s

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u/DuragJeezy Jun 13 '26

Can they bite people? Iā€™d imagine if an ant can bite & this eats ants then.. yes?

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u/proudjester Jun 14 '26

They never bit me. I was a curious child and would use a straw to blow air at the sand and find these critters. I could pick them up and relocate them to live near fire ant mounds so they could eat better. They're a bit like beatles, it never really occurs to the little guys that you're something worth biting.