Spidery enemy

VarmintLP

Queen
Backer
Hello there,

I just found out about a jumping spider which imitates the bahavior of ants which might be interesting for the game since it would fit into the whole thing. Sadly the english Wikipedia arcticle doesn't contain much information but the german one at least got some more info on those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmarachne_formicaria
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameisenspringspinne
usually it's the other way arround. haha

Anyway. I find it interesting that such a spider does exist and it seems to be a very recent discovery. Not much is known about it but I could imagine that they do sneak into the nest, to either steal some of the juicy larvae just like the slavemaker ants or that they live inside the colony killing of some of the workers every now and then.

In the german wikipedia they mention that those spiders successfully coexist with the ants and they use snail shells as their hibernation spot and do also share those sometimes with other spiders of their kind and might use them as a shelter during summer as well. Sadly they only write that they prey on small animals they can overwhelm with one jump just like other jumping spiders do but that is a bit too wage for me. It also is spider of the year 2019.

Here is the video that brought their existence to my attention.

what do you guys think?
 

MedinB

Colony
Ohh, After I woke up at 3AM in the morning.... I think this is a AWESOME idea! We have.... Trap Jaw ants... Snap, snap, snap! And they are black... Well maybe add blacker ant species like what? Uh IDK, so I could not tell the difference.
 
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