ANT MIMIC JUMPING SPIDER!.. will it EAT an ant?
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In today's video I show 3 amazing native jumping spider finds from outside! A beautiful tan jumping spider, bold jumping spider, and a mysterious ant mimicking jumping spider!
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Thanks for all the helpful responses! I'll try feeding it some ant larvae, and also the smaller fruit flies one more time!
i was litterly about to comment feed it ant larve but someone all ready did
What is the range of those Ant mimicking spiders? Im from Vienna/ Austria in Europe and i found one looking just like yours on my balcony.
From what I read it says that they tend to be pretty good at catching and eating moths and they will go into other spiders nest to eat their eggs
Fun fact there are SOME spiders that really like ants as prey. Anasaitis canosa (twin flag jumping spider) which is EVERYWHERE in the south east US really loves ants. They instinctively know exactly where to bite the ant not to get stung. This behavior has been noted by myself as well as in scientific recordings. I have a few as pets. They're so tiny and cute!!!
also came to suggest larvae lol
The adult ant seems too big and too dangerous of a prey item for a spider of that size IMO. As someone else suggested, I think it might use the mimicry to get into the ants' nest and eat the larvae. You have plenty of those too under that rock, I'd give it a try
They eat ants. They mimic the look and attract ants with pheromones to them. They're not going to go where there are tens of thousands of ants, because the ants would destroy them.
I double the larvae. That or pupa. Ants have a really hard exoskeleton and could actually damage small spiders chelicerae as well. So they probably use their mimicry to get at something else.
I've never seen this type of jumping spider. Very cool spider. Most jumping spiders often take on larger prey than themselves, but I think the idea of this spider mimicking an ant to get at the young makes sense.
@@r1verman we only have small jumping spiders here in NZ and i have seen one running around holding onto a fly that was almost bigger then the spider. I know ants are completely different to flies just adding to your comment that they will go for larger prey.
@Jeffrey Berry yes I was gonna say this, I wouldn't worry about the size
Hey Kat! I have an ant mimic and I feed them the smaller flightless fruit flies!, i tried the bigger ones first and it seemed afraid of them, but the smaller ones, it chowed right down!
thx 🙏
I’ve seen these spiders around my house too,I don’t keep them as they are too small and finding tiny bugs for them to eat isn’t fun,plus that jumping spider is a male,he’s actually mature as I saw his bulbs.
The bold & tan both mature males. Tans with the orangish band around eyes are males, white band females.
I'm so glad you posted this because this was not a spider I ever expected to encounter. I watched your video then SAW ONE OUTSIDE MY HOUSE. I was checking on my baby plants outside.. moved a cup and saw an ant.... well... so I thought... I watched this ant for a minute and tried to gently blow it off the cup. It didn't move... until it did and practically FLOATED to the ground so gracefully. Unlike any ANT I've never seen and man I got SO EXCITED!!!!
What a cool find! I believe ant mimicking jumping spiders mainly mimic to avoid predators, I've never seen anything about them eating ants. They also secrete very low levels of the hydrocarbons that other insects use to identify prey and threats, which gives them another layer of defense. I love watching the spider waving its pedipalps around like antennae and looking like an ant and then, boom, drop down on a silk line! So cool!
Hi Kat, hope you’re well.
Those wee jumping spiders are really cute 🥰
I think another person might have the right idea, that the ant mimicking jumping spider uses the way it looks so it can get into the nest and eat the larvae 🐛💚xx
could be, try it
What about the pheromones?
That would be impossible to keep in an area that has 4 seasons. What would you feed in the winter if it refuses fruit flies and all else?
The tan jumping spider (platycryptus undatus) i believe is a male. Adult males have an orange stripe under their front eyes while females have white. I love tan jumpers and have a few as well! Beautiful spiders!
Try feeding the ant mimic jumping spider some ant larvae! The ant didn't seem to be weary of the spider, so maybe it mimics so that it can safely enter the ant colony to eat the larvae. 😊
3:21 we have those in the netherlands i found it in the garden 3 hours ago it was a big one for its size
and its a male i think you need allot of bark for them begause they look like it
I love the joy of sitting somewhere and just be on a spiderhunt, already got 3 different kind of jumpers here, collection is growing🥺💖
He is a mature male, I find that they can mature at quite a variety of different sizes :))
Edit: you can tell if a male audax is mature if he has thick white bands on his pedipalps. Also, the platycryptus undatus(tan jumping spider) is a mature male, you can tell by the orange face. And the Ant mimicking jumping spider is a mature male too!
I dont know how to help with the ant mimic spider but a few studies have found that their mimicry does impact their ability to jump significantly. So maybe something a bit slow and bumbling? They are also reported as running away form that which they mimic or the ant running from the spider depending on where they end up touching one another. If the ant touches the spiders chelicerae the ant runs if it touches another body part the spider runs. That doesnt help but its fun
We're in a bizarro timeline folks.
AntsMissouri and Tarantula Matt.
Maybe try the eggs/pupae from the ants? Maybe it blends in to feast on the babies.
Maybe the ant mimic jumping spider, looks like them and uses that to get into the nest. Then consume the larva?
The second spider you showed, I found yesterday in my yard, and it ate a meal worm. It has oranage around its eyes, The first one you showed, I call fuzz chubs and I cannot find them any where, but the 3rd one, the mimic ant, we have a few of them, to us they look like scorpions, besides having them, we also have the small yellowish to brownish common yard ones, in fact we had 2 females who hatched babies. and have 3 more ready to hatch their babies, so I guess the ant ones we'll just keep looking for them
Hey Kat, I think I saw where the ant mimic eat the ants larva. That's why they mimc the ants. They can steal their larva without being detected. I could be wrong but seems like I saw that on a documentary. Good luck! Keep the vids coming.
There was a time I had an Ant Mantis and I needed to get some feeder for him. I knew of an abandon building close by so I went there to get a surplus of ants and one of the ants I ended up catching was an Ant Spider. That defence mechanism actually fooled me
Here we have a slightly metallic ant mimic jumping spider which hangs out with similar size blackants on tartarian honeysuckle bushes. The ants "farm" aphids for their honeydew, and I've kept our species by feeding them aphids from the honeysuckle bushes.
Your brown jumper might appreciate "porch light moths", small pyralid and geometer moths, usually white, gray or light brown.
My first jumping spider I ever caught in the wild was a tan jumper, I found her living on my car and named her Mercedes, she literally started my love for jumping spider keeping!
Just so you know they really do not thrive in captivity, mine failed to thrive and anyone else I've heard of trying to keep them has had the same experience, I really hope you can give this little one great care and tell us how you did it so we can keep this species more commonly in captivity because they are awesome!!!
Saw an ant mimic on Monday. Looking at the peonies. Saw a bunch of ants as normal. Then saw a slightly browned looking ant looked at it. Took me a minute because it was waving ‘antennae’ like an ant but I saw it move and I honed in so hard. You know that feeling after getting to know jumping spiders so well you can recognize the way they walk. I grabbed the leaf it was on and it jumped back in the exact way jumping spiders do and I was like oh my god! I’ve never seen this before is this real do they live in Missouri. Tried to look up native MO species and nothing came up for it. Hope I find it again so I can be more prepared next time. Very cool little guys.
I have to say as an isopod keeper I love that you saved the isopod from the ants 😂❤
Wooow lol I was just talking to my mom about ant mimicking jumpers yesterday
I would try ant larvae or pupae. Maybe they mimic not only to avoid predation, but to sneak in and steal the ant brood. Idk tho, just a thought.
I had a tan jumper once and it also was uninterested in mealworms. I ended up releasing it because I didn't have any flies to try. I think you should try some of the ant larva like another comment suggested.
Yes, I had two but they unfortunately passed because I couldn't catch the flies it wanted. I heard they don't usually thrive in captivity unless they can constantly be fed flies, and even then, it's not guaranteed. I wish I would have let mine go, I feel a bit selfish now having sentenced them to death and starvation. I probably won't keep another one.
@@TaraAndFriends we all make mistakes! I've had audax go off food and starve before too before I could release them. It can happen pretty fast.
Hi Kat, try giving it the ant’s egg/larva. That’s probably what they feed on! Hence the reason for mimicking ants. Just a thought!
I'm no spider expert, but I had an ant mimic wandering about with the ants in my house once. He looked like he was looking for food with them, just another one of the guys. Doing his part for the colony's protection perhaps? Now I wish I put some honey out, just to see if he'd get the other ants to come gather it or take some back himself.
Those Jumping Spiders are all sooo Cute🥰 The Second one kinda reminds me of thr Marpissa Muscosa wich we have Here in Germany, i used to Catch Them and keep Them a Lot cause They are the biggest Jumping Spider species Here😃
when ever i find a jumping spooder in my yard, i make sure to care for it as much as i can, only spooder im not afraid of, they are so cute
The Bold jumping spider is the EXACT ONE I'm looking for. I want one of those beauties so bad! They're so curious and sweet and gentle.
Your tan is a male! I fond them all the time, females of this species have a white stripe "mustache" below their eyes, while males have a rusty orange colored one!
I also agree that the audax looks to be male but I'm not 100% sure.
I found 2 “zebra” jumping spiders in my kitchen window…I still have them. One is younger than the other…they’re quite small still, but I love them both. I first got meal worms for them, and then got some small crickets just today! I still would like to find some flightless fruit flies👍👍
don’t quote me on this but im pretty sure i watched some video about these guys (ant mimic) not too long ago and from what i remember/think is that they eat the ant larvae (they pretend to be ant then steal their children) again though, idk if that’s correct information, but thought i’d mention just incase
Try searching specifically for Peckhamia picata. There isn't a ton of information easily available, but I found more with that search term than just searching "ant mimic jumping spider". What I could find seems to indicate that they eat gnats and other small insects, so I would keep trying with fruit flies!
Salticidae is the family name from where the Antmimic Jumping Spider is kin. Maybe you'll find more from that search.....❤️🕷❤️Love the jumping spiders. Been looking for some in my yard, which is an acre, and about half is yard only, with lots of hiding places and plants for many small insects, spiders, and we also have a garden snake or 2 here in Colorado....I am Angie from eastern North Carolina but live in Colorado now. I am hoping to see a wild Tarantula this year. Last year my husband accidentally ran over one, and I literally cried. He couldn't help it. I was there in the passenger side. We had been waiting and watching for the migration in an area, and one just so happened to be crossing the road, and not seeing the baby, he ran over it. 😢😢😢😢So maybe this year we'll have better luck. Hope you have an Amazing Mother's Day weekend.....and that's for All mothers here as well....❤❤❤❤❤❤
i see these and other jumping spiders all the time , the little mimic ones almost always look indentical , sometimes the little like arm things in the front dont even look like a spider.
I live that enclosure! The blue is sooo pretty!🕷💙💙💙💙💙🕷
I catch and keep wild Phidippus audax in my home and yard all the time. I have had both sexes and my vote is that lil Phidippus audax is a close to mature young male. It seems more "crab like" in its build already and if I am not mistaken possibly some man legs already forming. Females I find are more squat in build, less lengthy, and they are a bit less "crazy" in my experience lol. Beautiful babies no matter what, thanks for the content!
I agree. I have kept several and this look like the mature males I’ve had.
I agree! The ones I’ve kept have had red spots on their abdomens as babies/juveniles, and white ones as young adults/adults. This little lad had white spots, so my guess is that he’s mature or close to it, like you said. Such a cutie, though-they’re really a joy to keep. 🥰
also keep in mind anything that is large enough would eat the ant would also eat the spider, so the spider has either evolved to eat smaller things that eats the ant..as in other small spiders, or to camouflage itself inside the ranks of the ants. It may even live inside the nest for protection.
Create a bio active enclosure for ant mimic. Add all the little bugs you can find fruit flies, springtales, pill bugs, etc. see what’s being left for clean up.
i so love your videos
The audax is definitely a male, and it looks like an adult. They’re smaller than the females. He’s beautiful.
Really oh wow I thought the males are usually bigger than females 🤔
@@tarantulakat not with jumping spiders. The females are larger. All my boys are smaller than my females. I know that’s the case with audax and regius, but there could be differences in other species.
I found also a ant looking jumping spider but only admired it playing with it for a little while and let it back in the wild
Whaaaat?I want one! The beetle mimic jumping spiders are also super cool!
I have an ant mimic JS that showed up in a good drinking glass just huddled there, I haven't seen him/her eat anything yet. Guess I'll try moths and ant larvae next.
the ant mimic may eat aphids since a lot of ants farm aphids and are around them? Multiple insects mimic ants to get close to them. The mimic ant may have a sweet tooth which aphids are, just a theory, good luck and nice find!
From what I could find it is most likely Myrmarachne albocincta and it is a female, as males have elongated chelicerae, it says that they eat insects, including ants
There is a species of jumping spiders called aphantochilus rogersi that use aggressive mimicry to feed on ants.
Just from what little I could find they seem to be highly reliant on sugar
The ant mimicking jumping spider is rare I've been able to one every few years here in Texas. If you don't keep it send it my way I also collect jumping spiders myself.
It looks like you have a male Phiddy :) Try gathering the ant larvae egg sacs. I believe they will eat them :)
All my brian keeps saying is its Minicking the ants so that he can go in to the bureau and probably eat the larvae since he's so small
Seems like the jumping spider was very curious about the ant but avoiding getting really close. Maybe the spider is aware that if there is one ant there will be a whole lot more of them around not far away! Maybe the spider just doesn't want to get mobbed by any nearby ants if he attacks the ant?
I´m originally from Puerto Rico. Lived in the country and never found a single jumping spider.
Then I moved to Spain and haven´t been able to find any jumping spiders either.
Omg! I found an ant mimic jumper today during my yard sale! On a box, so I put my hand up to it.. and it jumped from hand to hand, very sweet and trusted me. I let it go in my rose bushes
Jumping spiders are so so cute we only get super small black and white ones here in halifax Canada once before I seen a brown one did not have a container it was super friendly and just a tad bigger then the black white ones. your videos are always amazing. Your awesome ✌💖😊🕷
Thank you for sharing this species. I had no idea they existed! I am currently sitting outside and one was crawling around on my picnic table and dangling from a web. So cool!
The spider mimicking jumping spider diet consists of any larvae that’s why they mimic to get into the nest and kill the larvae and also deposit there own larvae so the ants feed and raise them there brilliant little spiders
Huh. I see these all the time, to the point that I've stopped assuming it's not a spider whenever I see an ant now. Whoa.
I never knew there was spider ants. I learned something new today.
Hope you can get it to eat.
We recently caught a metallic looking ant mimic jumping spider. He/she has a gold body so my son named it rumpelstiltskin (had no idea it was called that till this video) but he/she has been eating fruit flys for us with no issues.
We have caught 2-3 other super cool red looking “ant mimic jumping spider” that never ever ate for us so we returned them back outside
I had a tan jumper named Albus. He was so cute.
Hi antvmimic jumping spiders eat ants, small arthropods, and insects. So I’m not sure why it wasn’t eating but it’s such a cool find 😊
Ant-mimic spiders eat ants, small arthropods, and insects.
Micro mealworms or confused rice flour beetle larvae 👍
The tan one is a species called menemerus bivittatus,it's very rare in brunei
Try offering the mimik ant jumper a small crumb of fruit... seeing how I learned about a jumping spider that also eat both fruit and prey... Just give it a try see what happens...
i've only ever owned two species of jumping spiders the hyllus giganteus and regals but the ant mimic has always amazed me how it looks and i've always wanted to own one
Kat, I found one of these in my house. I have some terrible grainy pics if you would like to see them 😂 I would love to talk to you about this! I have a millions questions!
I'm pretty sure the ant mimic use's mimicry to infiltrate an ant nest to prey on the eggs and or larvae.
I've kept two, what seen/read, the main purpose of looking like an ant is for protection. urs looks to have a decent size abdomen (could she be gravid??) mine took a few days to settle in but ate fruitflies, no problem. both were adults when i found them, and still lived happily for almost a year ❤
thank you for the info - how did you house them if you don't mind me asking?
@tarantulakat i used a small amex box my husband melted small holes for ventilation (they previously held juvenile bold jumpers/small tan jumper) so i hot glued gause strips over holes so there could still be air flow but he couldnt squeeze thru. other then making sure the bigger holes were covered, i kept them exactly how i do my Phidippus audax. i spritz them every other day just because its very dry in my apartment
Awesome tarantula kat also please be careful with the black widow spider i do not want you getting bitten by it Awesome Video Tarantula Kat
Ant mimics are a challenge, I found and kept one for a little while last year (genus Ligonipes, one of our native Australian jumpers) and had a similar issue. It ate fruit flies for me on two occasions but it seemed to be a very picky eater and would normally just ignore anything I tried to feed it, I released it before long because I just could not seem to make it happy (despite keeping over 20 other species just fine) but I hope you manage a breakthrough with yours, I see people suggesting to feed it ant larvae or eggs which is interesting so I hope that works!
cool, i had one of those mimics land on me for a few momemts yesterday and i didn't know what it was but i knew it wasn't an ant!
as far as disguises go, I'd assume that any other "ant" except the species which lives there, is getting through the door, nevermind near a nursery to have meal- so likely sslf preservation.
cool video
Try an arboreal ant species as jumping spiders that mimic ants may eat these types of ants? Also may not be hungry because it is a mature male already just looking to breed? Maybe not just some thoughts.
What's cool is not only does the spider look like an ant but it mimics it's walk. Most jumpers move like they're in a strobe light. My quess is looking like an ant is to ward off enemies and not to invade nests. Ants communicate with their antennae and the spider would be quickly identified as an intruder. Could be wrong. Anyway I hope you find something he likes to eat. Very unique looking arachnid.
been enjoy watching Kat’s videos. It definitely helped me get over my fear of spiders. Was so excited to see that I she caught a tan jumping spider. I also just caught a very similar looking one Grey wall jumper: they both have smaller and pointier abdomen, similar pattern, and smaller in size. I left a small cricket in the enclosed for the little guy. He didn’t eat right away, but the next morning I already found him grabbing and mounching on it, after a few hours, the cricket was sucked to dry ..RIP, jumping spiders are so fun to watch . 😂Thanks for the great content as always Kat!
Maybe the Ant Jumping Spider mimics Ants so it can go into the nest and eat the Ant Eggs? 🤷🏻♂️
I’m no professional but it’s just a thought I had when I saw all the eggs in your video
I had an Ant Mimic Jumping Spider that was a friend of mine in my shower, there were ants there that disappeared so who knows.
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I would've never imagined that jumping spiders can also be found in the form of an ant, that's so unique!
Actually, I've learnt something new today, thanks to you!
Btw, I'll be scared of ants as well now! (I'm joking, don't worry!) 🤣
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Absolutely a male Audax in my opinion black with the green fangs to go with it. Such adorable enclosures!!!!❤❤🕷🕷❤❤
Mine will eat fruit flies. Found my first one a month ago and a second today. I did observe the second one in the wild. He was chowing down on the super tiny red bugs. Probably impossible to source reliably though. If this one won't eat I'll let it go. Hoping I have a male and female. It did take a little before the other one ate a fruitfly. Springtails maybe?
I love these 3 new jumping spiders Kat 😍 Great content 🫶🏻🖤
Is it weird that I dislike spiders in general but find jumping spiders cute? The Paradox!
I wonder if the ant-mimicking jumping spider does so to infiltrate ant nests and eat the larvae!
7:32 THAT POOR POLLIE
We saved it don’t worry
@@tarantulakat 😭😭 it was funny how it played out
If P. audax are similar to P. regius the first one is definitely a male. Black and white + green chelicerae - a P. regius looking like this is a male and judging its size this one isn't matured yet.
I raised a P. regius male from when he was 2mm tall until he was mature so I know that pretty well :)
(If P. audax males look different I'm happy if someone corrects me.)
The second one looks really cool! They look similar to those native to Europe (Marpissa muscosa) :)
And I didn't know there's a jumping spider that looks like an ant... Thanks for sharing! That was interesting.
I find an ant mimic at least once a year, I usually catch them for a day or two to observe them and give them a snack and then release them. I cannot find any information anywhere on how to keep them; part of me assumes they live in ant colonies because I have a lot of them in my yard
I've found fruit flies and some watered down honey are meals they enjoy 🥰
What do mimic spiders eat?
Edit. Ant-mimic spiders eat ants, small arthropods, and insects.
Why do ants mimic spiders?
Ants are particularly good animals to mimic, firstly because they are very numerous and secondly because many animals find them distasteful or dangerous to eat. By looking like an ant, the spider mimic is less likely to be noticed or eaten. A few spiders not only look like ants but smell like them as well.
i found an ant mimic in my bathroom of all places kept it a few weeks fed it the smallest of the crickets
Jumping spiders are adorable I was hoping it ate the ant as well.🥺
From what I understand, mimicking an ant makes these spiders less likely to be preyed upon from animals that like to eat spiders (birds most commonly, I think). I've owned two of them and they seemed to like fruit flies for me.
the audax is a male, i had a eeensie one live with us at the very beginning of spring named iggy :) released a few weeks ago to go forth and make more jumpers.
I’m not 100% positive but I think he may be a mature male audax. I’ve had several and my males have always been quite small.
My juveniles mostly still have a bit of red/orange on the abdomen.
I have seen some ant mimicking jumping spider I did not now they are rare.
The first one is so cute putting those big front two legs up all i could think was look at me im big and scary ahh.
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Try any eggs or larvae? That may be tasty?