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Spidey Senses

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Spider-Ant
    Spider-Ant
    Does whatever a spider can

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    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except jump Cause it would be sus

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Among ants be like Image

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    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can he jump from a branch? No he can’t, he not sus Look out, he is a Spider-Ant!

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      • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Strange, she can't fall from a branch either. Whenever she does, she always seems to catch herself with spider web...

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    • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      whatever a spider c’ant

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    • supamanc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ant-spider, surely?

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s lucky for them ants can’t count. “…seven, eight legs?? Wait a minute!”

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  • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The skinwalkers are among us

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      imagine if a species of lemur evolved to broadly look like us, but still with lemur faces and stuff

      that’s basically what’s happening for ants, terrifying

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think ants see very well, so it’d prob be more like lemurs that look exactly like us, but smell like ozone and old grease.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bottom left is definitely a spider. I count 8 legs and can see the distinct segmentation of a spider body. Though, really, just dat fat ass gives it away.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      … arent they all spiders?

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      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think so, too. They all seem to have eight legs, more than two eyes, which don’t look like compound eyes, a cephalothorax/two body segments rather than three, a lack of antennae, etc. It would probably be easier to tell looking at them head-on so we could see their chelicerae.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They are all spiders, but if it hadn’t said they were all spiders I could have still just looked at that guy and went “wait a minute…” He looks the least ant-like.

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I saw in a documental a snake which fools ants, but not to eat these, but to use these as bait for fooling lizards, which are the real prey for the snake.

    • The snake buried itself in the sand, leaving only the tail point, imitating a tan of grass
    • This attracts the ant
    • This in turn attracts the lizard who wants to eat the ant
    • End of the lizard
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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Evolution to spiders: We’ve decided to combine your head and thorax.

    Some jumping spiders: Nah

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lmao, giraffe spiders!

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  • friendly_ghost@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine trying to hide an entire pair of legs when you’re hanging out with ants

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “ohoho no! these aren’t legs, they’re pedipalps! mmm, pedipalps to help me eat!”

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      • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What big pedipalps you have, great aunt!

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  • SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are ants so visual? I guess so, or there wouldn’t be enough advantage for these guys to develop. I thought they went purely by sensing pheromones.

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    • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe it isn’t just fooling ants?

      Don’t know the advantage to fooling everything else but they are convincing. Worked in a warehouse that had a bunch of the red ones one summer. Everybody thought there was an ant problem but they seemed off to me. Firstly, they were never in groups, you’d only find lone ones wandering. Secondly, they walked like ants but held their “antennae” strangely. Lastly, when knocking one off a box I discovered they have a tether thread.

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      • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ants are rarely visual, but I’m also struggling to figure out which predator this is meant to dissuade.

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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I could be violet sky

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  • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The crab of the insect world?

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    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Arthropods, man. They have two ideals and everything goes toward them.

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      • UberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        impossible arthropod beauty standards need to be stopped!

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  • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So in addition to crabification, we also have antification. Evolution really just found an energy minima at eight legs, huh?

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    • fox@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s more that the lobster plan (long body) is really quite good in many niches, but the crab plan (wide body, no exposed tail) works better in more productive ecosystems that have more predators. So anything lobster shaped coming up from the deep mud will have to reduce its tail or get sniped by a fish

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        so wait are we just walking terrestrial lobsters? and… gorillas are primate crabs maybe?

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Carcinisation is a bit more of an adaption to environment (convergent evolution into same-ish shape for the chance utility of it) vs niche mimicry which is in relation to another specific species.

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Proper ants only have 6 legs, though. But yeah, these spiders-turned-to-ants would have 8 legs.

      Well, and crabs technically have 10 legs, with their foremost pair typically equipped with pincers. 🙃

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i’m sure there’s at least one ant-mimicking spider that has turned their front legs into extra quasi-pedipalps to blend in better, getting rid of limbs is super easy in evolution (that’s where antennae and the existing pedipalps come from, and spinnerets too i presume)

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  • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My ADHD brain counting all the legs on these mfers for the past five minutes…

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  • cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I could be an ant.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Great info >!(but I’m always sad to see dead spiders)!<.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Plot Twist All actual ant species are derived from antcestor that was simply mimicking another species, and so thus all ants are total frauds.

    Good thing I don’t come from an evolutionary branch like that!

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, I’m not ant.

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  • TankieTanuki@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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