• Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Oh, yeah, true - but I don’t know what species of ants it’s mimicking. Perhaps that’s just how they look too & now we are body-shaming ants for looking too spidery (‘sup, you 6-legged no-neck with that thicc ass’) :D.

    It seems like it’s Myrmarachne maxillosa, very snooty thing.

    It’s prob mimicking a puppy or something.

    Here is one desperately trying to toucha the butt of another:

    As for who they are copypastaing:

    It probably mimics the Common Spiny Ants of the genus Polyharchis.

    Yeah, these ants indeed have a dump truck:

    (And these horny spiny ants do come in way more spinier flavours, pretty metal.)

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      It’s prob mimicking a puppy or something.

      Why would you put that uncensored comment out here for us to see? Now I’m going to have nightmares as if directed by John Capenter about spiders that look exactly like puppies to humans until they attack.

      They are most dangerous on Halloween, by the way:

      Stay vigilant. Do not become a statisic.