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Myrmarachne sp.
Take a second look! Length, from tip of scissors to tail: 9.00 mm.
Take a second look, this's not an ant, this's a spider! It jumps like a jumping spider. It throws its sticky thread as it moves or jumps, or dangles. It keeps on chopping the air with its heavy pair of scissors! Perhaps to look more like an authentic ant, it's even lost its left fore leg! A true two-in-one arthropod!
Spotted on Jun 14, 2014
Submitted on Jun 15, 2014
12 Comments
Wow, thanks Sukanya.
OMG!! I took a second, third and fourth look...still counting. Unbelievable.
Thanks staccyh and rams4d for the comments.
Thanks venusflytrap2000! Yes, they should give it a 360 deg. view for hunting.
Very Impressive !!!
Wow, such a great find! Congrats.
does it really have 8 eyes? or are the other 6 just decoys?
Thanks pals (Machi, Viv, carlybm, suzmonk, sunny, Marta, njumer, manuelariasarias77, Rez, MahabaleshwaraB, Nuwan, Johan, RobThacker, Luis, Scott Frazier, Hema, hernandezwolf99, FilippoGuerra, Adrian and Wild Thins) for making it favourite.
Thanks Viv, Rob and sunny for the comments.
This is great!!
Very nice
Great spotting!