#DailySpiderPic: found a couple of _Myrmarachne_ ant-mimic jumping spiders on the garden wall today! With their shape and coloration combined with fast staccato motion, if you're not looking closely it's easy to confuse them with their model, _Camponotus_ carpenter ants (pictured: a worker feeding on a bit of apple I gave them, also today).
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A carpenter ant worker, shiny and black with slender tapered legs and golden hairs on her abdomen, feeds on a tiny bit of apple slice at the base of a tree.
The same spider on the side of the stone slab, seen from above, for a better look at her shiny abdomen with white markings.
A shiny black jumping spider under the lip of a stone wall (the photo is flipped vertically). A striped, constricted abdomen, a long slender cephalothorax, and translucent legs with black stripes give the spider an ant-like (and particularly carpenter ant-like) appearance. She still has the unique jumping spider eye arrangement, with a big round pair of forward-facing eyes.