The Ant Mimic Spider has a diabolically clever method for getting close to its next meal without having to wait.
Ant mimicry or myrmecomorphy is mimicryof ants by other organisms. Ants are abundant all over the world, and predatorsthat rely on vision to identify their prey such as birds and wasps normally avoid them, because they are either unpalatable or aggressive. Some arthropods mimic ants to escape predation (protective mimicry), while others mimic ants anatomically and behaviourally to hunt ants (aggressive mimicry).[1]
To overcome ants' powerful defences, mimics may imitate ants chemically (Wasmannian mimicry) with ant-like pheromones, visually (as in Batesian mimicry, though the purpose may also be aggressive mimicry), or by copying microstructure for tactile mimicry.
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