Talk:Myrmaplata plataleoides

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this is fucking astonishing. The female looks like an ant, and the male looks like an ant carrying another ant? wow. Evolution really is an amazing process. --86.135.182.174 (talk) 01:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I see these guys and related species everyday in my garden which is home to an enormous, distributed weaver ant colony that spans the entire garden and across into to a neighbouring jack fruit farm. If you could see how these spiders wander around with impunity just a few cm away from hundreds of highly aggressive weaver ant workers with excellent eyesight (for ants) you would probably be even more impressed. Sean.hoyland - talk 03:11, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

A friend of mine in grad school was a spider expert, and had samples of these. They really did look like ants. I'm told that they can strike a pose with the frontmost pair of legs raised high to better resemble a six-legged bug with antennae! WHPratt (talk) 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Does anyone know...

...why ants cannot smell the difference?--80.141.230.225 (talk) 20:40, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Good question. There have been some studies on some other jumping spiders, not particularly this species. http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v33_n3/arac-033-03-0813.pdf Some of them are known to mimic the cuticular chemicals of the ants and their appearance seems to be indistinguishable to spiders as well http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/ark017/ Shyamal (talk) 01:30, 11 April 2010 (UTC)