Ants, Beetles and Spiders
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Description: Article by David Richman on the mimicry adopted by some spiders in the order Araneae making them resemble certain unpalatable ants and beetles.
While collecting spiders one day from palmettos along Black Creek Canal just outside of Miami, Florida, I was delighted to discover a small, slender "ant" that had fallen onto my beating sheet. The "ant" I saw that day gave away the fact that it was not really one of the stem-nesting ants common in such situations by its lack of bulging compound eyes and the fact that it had eight legs. It was a spider posing as an ant and, while it resembled a close relative known somewhat euphoniously as
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