Is there such a thing as an ant eating spider and if so where do I get one?
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Prey specialization and the predatory behavior of two European ant-eating zodariid spiders, Zodarion germanicum and Zodarion rubidum, were studied in detail. The spiders were offered 12 ant species and seven other insects (termites, beetles, aphids, silverfish, flies, crickets and grasshoppers). Study spiders turned out to be ant specialists as they were able to subdue many ant species but ignored all other insects, except termites, which they attacked but rarely subdued. The best capture success was obtained with medium-sized ants (e.g. Lasius and Formica). The predatory behavior of the zodariid spiders involves an attacking and a handling phase separated by a period of waiting at a safe distance. The attacking phase consisted of a very rapid lunge from the rear, followed by a bite on the most extended ant leg. After an attack, the spider retreated to a safe distance, perhaps an indication that natural selection has favored such caution in the presence of an aggressive prey. The spider waited until the ant ceased moving. Such predatory behavior, which limits contact with the predator and prey, is clearly an effective means of handling a dangerous prey.\n\nYou can find one from \nAustralia,Czech Republic,Greece,France,Hungary etc...
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Some jumping spiders look and more importantly, smell like ants, and in their disguise, enter the ant's nest (a weaver ant) to devour them and their larvae.
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No I have never heard of that and my son is a spider expert...;
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They belong to the order Hymenoptera, this means they are most closely related to bees, wasps, and sawflies. Ants are characterised by having a very narrow waist between the thorax and the abdomen, this places them in the sub-order Apocrita.\nAnts are one of the most social insect on the planet, and the bulk weight of all the ants in the tropics is more than the combined weight of all the humans on earth.\nAnts are wingless except for the reproductives. Queens will have what is called a nuptual flight where they emerge from a nest and mate with a single male. The female then starts her own colony and used the stored sperm from that one mating for the rest of her life, she can produce hundreds of thousands of eggs with this single sperm donation.\nAnt societies have different demographics, called castes, these include workers (sterile females) soldiers (with large mandibles) and one queen, sometimes more, depending on the species.\nAnts eat virtually anything, from organic materials to other insects, to pollen, nectar and honeydew (produced by aphids)\nSome ants grow their own food, like in leaf-cutter ants. They will cut pieces leaves and transport them to special chambers underground where they grow mushrooms which feed on the leaves.\n\nthats all that comes to mind for now, hope this helps!
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I'm not sure about in Australia, but I know here in Western Canada we have flying ants called Carpenter Ants. As the name would suggest they are like termites in that they go after wood for a place to nest. Each year in late spring through till early summer you will see Queen Ants and Male Ants which have grown wings. They fly to find a mate, and once one is found they fall to the ground, loose their wings, and attempt to start a new colony.
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It might be one of the oak galls - made by tiny gall wasps - perhaps the Oak Apple Gall. Check out the links.
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Little Black Ant\n\nLittle Black ants are very small and black, two nodes, with workers all one size, similar to the Pharaoh Ant. Found throughout the U.S., but most often in the east. One of the more common house-infesting ants, Little Black Ants nest in wall voids and under carpets. May build outdoor colonies under rocks, logs, debris and forage to indoor food sources along baseboards and carpet edges. Likes sweets, fats, oils.
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You may be referring to a Jerusalem cricket, more commonly known as a potato bug.  These insects aren't really crickets and don't eat potatoes, but who says names have to make sense?\n\nNext time, give us a general idea of where you live.  It'll help narrow down the possibilities of what you're looking at.
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Doesn't sound familiar, but here's a link to an article about North America's "medically significant" spiders. take a look at the photos. If it's not on here, chances are you don't have to worry about it.\n\nhttp://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/natural/insects/research/dangspid.htm
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Knowing the food habits of the particular ant species is important in ant management because it may enable the location and elimination of the food that is attracting the ants to the site, it can help to locate foraging trails to track the ants back to their nest, and it can help to choose an effective bait. \n\nAnts feed on many different types of food. Some species will feed on practically anything; others may limit their food to a narrow range. Ants infesting structures are typically feeding on "people food," both food in storage (sugar, cakes, cookies, breakfast cereals, etc.) and food from spills and garbage. But they may also be preying on other insects or scavenging on dead insects in windows or lights.\n\nFood preferences are often seasonal. When the queen is actively laying eggs, worker ants typically gather protein- based foods for the queen. At other times they may ignore protein foods completely and restrict their foraging to sugars and greases. \n\nMany ants obtain sugar by feeding on honeydew, a sweet substance secreted by aphids and other plant-sucking insects. They often defend these insects from predators and tend them as if they were their personal food supply. Indoor infestations of ants are occasionally traced to large populations of aphids on outdoor foundation plants or indoor houseplants.
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sugar & grease is what ants are usually attracted to.\n\nput out a potato chip & watch them go wild (it's the grease in the potato chip that they are after)
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Army ants found in Africa are called driver ants. Driver ants form huge colonies, which in some cases consist of between 10 million and 20 million workers. Driver ants have extremely powerful mandibles. Their massive swarms are capable of immobilizing and killing large prey.\n\nIf attacked you won't be dismembered and eaten, but bites from large soldiers (workers) can inflict excruciating pain. Once their jaws have snapped shut, nothing can shake them loose.\n\nColonies of these ants have no permanent nests. Instead they make temporary bivouacs by interlocking their bodies in a protective dome over the queen and her young. Periodically they use a hollow log or decaying stump for a slightly more permanent shelter. This is for about 20 days and allows the queen to lay her eggs, possibly up to 30,000 of them.\n\nThey have been known to kill Elephants believe it or not. The very few cases with human fatalites most are of them being unconscious and their calls for help being unheard.
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It may have been a harvestman (related to spiders, but included in order Opiliones). \nCheck this page, it has photographs of different types of Chelicerates and some identification tips:\nhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/InfoNed/The_spider.html
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I have no idea what an earth baby is.  How large is this critter?  Where have you seen it?  Where do you live?  \n\nI can't think of anything off the top of my head that sounds even vaguely like the critter you're describing.\n\nThe only common household 'pest' I can think of with pincers like a crab or scorpion is a pseudoscorpion.  \n\nPseudoscorpions are quite harmless, and actually very useful in your garden.  I used to get them all the time in my bathroom, but where I live now I don't them that often.  They are only a few millimeters across, and cannot harm humans, and don't get into our food.\n\nhttp://whatsthatbug.com/pseudoscorpion.html - This site has some very good pictures of pseudoscorpions, and if that's not what they are, you may be able to find your critter in their excellent galleries.
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The red spotted ant mimic spider, like all spiders, possesses venom glands, and is predatory, however its venom is not dangerous to humans.\n\nI'm not sure why they're actually called ant mimics, since they don't look much like an ant to me.  They look like a pretty black spider with a red stripe down the back of its abdomen to me.
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It's the herpyllus vasifer spdier - and ... I recommend this website - I'm terrified of spiders and can't research this one for you - sorry!
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Yes y am familiar with this kind of spider.y am from Romania and we have a lot of them around.it is called the metal spider.yes is poison es but it is very slow but he can camouflage itself very well.