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Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
Myrmarachne plataleoides
It is really amazing that these spiders have evolved to mimick like ants and they even manage to eat ant larvae..!!
Lat: 14.08, Long: 75.35
Spotted on Aug 26, 2011
Submitted on Apr 25, 2012
21 Comments
Those are actualy false eyes Chief. It looks like the eyes of an ant..:-) It uses this to mimic like an ant.
what are these headlight like spots?
Thanks Nuwan..:-)
superb shot!
Thank u so much MayraSpringmann..:-)
Fantastic!
Thank u very much KarenL..:)
Thanks carol.. I too came to kow about them after spotting a black ant mimick spider for the first time..:)
Thank u Harsha singh..:)
Great macro!
These types of spiders fascinate me. i didn't even know they existed until a few weeks ago. Great macro.
Awesome!
@Ashish.. As i have observed, these spiders are quite faster than ants when it comes to speed of walking..:)
Thank you very much VivBraznell..:)
They are very much mimic to ants with shape and speed of walking.
Brilliant capture!
Thank u CandiceB & Mandy Hollman...:):)
@Nilesh Sutar.. The link u have provided is not opening..:(
Amazing! It sure tricked me.
I've never seen this! Clever :)
can you submit this spotting to Ants World
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1...