Many insects have evolved to look just like ants to escape predators, but it turns out that spiders might also be able to mimic ants—and much more effectively than scientists first thought.

It’s been just three weeks since I last wrote about the dark-footed ant ... jumping spiders, some species feed on others of their own kind by tapping webs to produce signals that mimic those ...

It also does impressions, copying the movements of an assortment of ant species. The jumping spider doesn’t mimic ants for attention — rather, the opposite. Ants are aggressively territorial ...

“Unlike typical ant-mimicking spiders that mimic the brown or black body color of ants, S. collingwoodi has brilliant body coloration,” co-author and Peking University in China ecologist Hua ...

Some of the most effective strategies involve deceiving ants. More than 300 species of spiders are known to mimic the outward appearance of ants, a phenomenon called myrmecomorphy. Aggressively ...

A tiny jumping spider's imperfect ant impression lets it mimic multiple species, enabling it to live in various habitats. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

For example, when an ant-eating jumping spider initiates stalking, the mimic makes a display toward the potential predator, raising its front legs from their normal antennae posture to a position ...

Today I would like to share this fascinating little creature with you: Is it and ant? think again, count its legs. See its got eight legs, so in fact it is a spider, now before you freak out and ...

A spider that looks uncannily like a cross between a spider and a large ant, has been discovered in the scrub jungle inside the Madras Christian College (MCC) - the first time in the 117 years ...

Researchers studied how jumping spiders use mimicry to disguise themselves as ants. While most animals mimic by altering their physical appearance, spiders do it by changing how they move.

To avoid being eaten, a tiny Asian jumping spider walks like its insect neighbours, mimicking ants with strong defences that bite back with mandibles and may carry venom, according to a new study.