It’s lucky for them ants can’t count. “…seven, eight legs?? Wait a minute!”
Spidey Senses
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
jqubed@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Spider-Ant
Spider-Ant
Does whatever a spider canmoistclump@lemmy.world 46 minutes ago
whatever a spider c’ant
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Except jump Cause it would be sus
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Can he jump from a branch? No he can’t, he not sus Look out, he is a Spider-Ant!
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Strange, she can't fall from a branch either. Whenever she does, she always seems to catch herself with spider web...
supamanc@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Ant-spider, surely?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 hours 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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
… arent they all spiders?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 7 hours 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 hours 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.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 hours 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
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
Evolution to spiders: We’ve decided to combine your head and thorax.
Some jumping spiders: Nah
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Lmao, giraffe spiders!
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 10 hours 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.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Ants are rarely visual, but I’m also struggling to figure out which predator this is meant to dissuade.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I could be violet sky
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
The crab of the insect world?
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
Arthropods, man. They have two ideals and everything goes toward them.
UberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
impossible arthropod beauty standards need to be stopped!
propter_hog@hexbear.net 10 hours ago
So in addition to crabification, we also have antification. Evolution really just found an energy minima at eight legs, huh?
fox@hexbear.net 8 hours 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
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 7 hours 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.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 hours 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. 🙃
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Great info >!(but I’m always sad to see dead spiders)!<.
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 8 hours ago
Fleur_@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
The skinwalkers are among us