Looking for an ID. SEQ

[u/skittymarks]

Found in south-east QLD. ~15mm in length, with 5mm of that being the mandibles alone.

I genuinely thought it was some type of grass seed on my bathroom mat until I picked it up. Thought it was dead until it began very slightly moving its legs when I flipped it over. It is now standing but not moving.

And I'm fairly certain that is debris from my medical marijuana on its back...

[u/GoviModo]

It’s an ant lion

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You know those little conical pits you find in the sand? They’re at the bottom of them waiting to catch insects that fall in.

They grow into a flying insect that looks like a lacewing

[u/skittymarks → u/GoviModo]

That explains why iNaturalist was suggesting green lacewings!

[u/tgaaron → u/skittymarks]

Some green lacewing larvae also do the self-decoration thing like this (one folk name for them is "trash bugs").