The dark-footed ant-spider mimics ants to avoid being eaten by other spiders that fear ants. It also uses its ant disguise to scare off these same spiders so it can eat their young. It’s a ...

The Siler collingwoodi spider mimics the way that ants walk to evade other spiders that might want to eat it. CREDIT: Zeng et al. 2023 ...

Zeng and Zhao et al., Imperfect ant mimicry contributes to local adaptation in a jumping spider, iScience, May 17 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106747 Request Reprint & Licensing Submit ...

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In fact, in identifying an ant-mimicking spider from Medellin, Colombia, Polinar’s new paper provides the first identification of any ant-mimicking spider found in fossilized resin. Set in a form of ...

Research uncovers a rare resin fossil find: A spider that aspires to be an ant. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 03 / 240322145408.htm ...

They masquerade as a much less desirable prey – ants – and Poinar’s recent paper in Historical Biology presents an early record of an ant-mimicking spider in fossilized resin.

Siler collingwoodi is a spider that jumps and wears a coat of vibrant and metallic blues, oranges and sometimes reds. It also does impressions, copying the movements of an assortment of ant ...

The Australian ant-slayer spider’s acrobatics let it feast on insects twice its size. It was all over for this banded sugar ant as soon as it was lassoed by an Australian ant-slayer spider.