How the Australian ant-slayer spider captures ants

Опубликовано: 20 Сентябрь 2022
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A team of researchers at Macquarie University, in Australia, working with two colleagues from Universität Hamburg, in Germany, has uncovered the means by which the Australian ant-slayer spider is able to capture and eat the much larger banded sugar ant. Read more at https://phys.org/news/2022-09-austral...

In this video: The acrobatic attack of the Australian ant slayer spider (Euryopis umbilicata). Euryopis umbilicata—the Australian ant slayer spider predominantly captures Camponotus consobrinus ants on the surface of Eucalyptus trees in eastern Australia. They wait for their prey flushed down against the trunk surface after sunset. Upon contact, they perform a series of fast and accurate acrobatic steps to capture their prey.

Video Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2205942119

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