I filled in the small cone-shaped holes in my lawn in July just to keep it tidy: two weeks later, when wider funnels appeared, I understood what I had destroyed
A Georgia homeowner’s attempt to tidy up small cone-shaped depressions in the lawn backfired when larger funnels reappeared two weeks later. What looked like lawn imperfections were actually sophisticated hunting traps built by antlion larvae, nature’s most efficient ant assassins. Filling them in wasn’t cleaning—it was destroying free pest control.