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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The scientists found that the spider walks in an antlike manner – raising its front legs to mimic an ant’s antennae, bobbing the abdomen and lifting its legs to walk, instead of jumping like ...

This Spider Looks Like an Ant. Can You Tell the Difference? Published Feb 13, 2024 at 7:01 PM EST Updated Feb 13, 2024 at 9:51 PM EST. By . Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPIDERS are so vast in number and have such a voracious appetite that they, if they so wished, could eat every human on the planet in a year — and still have room left over for more.

Ant-mimic spider found in MCC’s jungle. PhD scholar spots male ‘Aetius Decollatus’ for the first time on college campus; species earlier found in Ceylon 117 years ago.