COMPLETELY NOCTURNAL — adults hide during the day in burrows, under stones, in leaf litter; emerge at NIGHT to hunt. Major nocturnal beneficial predator in European backyards.

Lives ENTIRELY UNDERGROUND in soil mounds — workers RARELY emerge above ground in daylight (only the periodic flying alates emerge for synchronized mating swarms).

BURIES HERSELF IN SAND for ambush predation — only the EYES EXPOSED at the surface. Lunges out to seize prey detected by vibrations transmitted through the sand.