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🧚 Lacewings & Antlions

South African Owlfly

Tmesibasis lacerata

About

A large African owlfly with intricately patterned wings and prominent clubbed antennae. Active during warm summer afternoons in savanna regions.

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Did You Know?

Its larvae cover themselves in soil and debris, lying motionless until prey walks within reach.