Myrmarachne | Learning #1
Today I encountered an insect who at first sight looked like a Carpenter ant. But upon further close inspection I observed it hanging with its web. It was really confusing for me, was it an ant who can make webs? Or a spider that resembled ants. I suspected it to be later and killed it as spiders can be very venomous and with this one being out of ordinary, I could not take any chances. Here's a photo of it that I clicked the top part is it's head I then looked about this insect over the internet and found out it's a Myrmarachne, a genus of spider who adopted appearance of ants for various survival reasons that I'll talk about. Here's a picture of it from the internet There are several species under the genus Myrmarachne that resemble different species of ants. They walk like ants (in a zig-zag pattern), and they even wave their front legs to resemble an ants antennae. Their large jaws resemble a cargo that ants usually transport. Ants are n...