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Bold Jumping Spiders eat ants! I found this one near a huge colony of little ants. It drank the ant's insides very rapidly without using any silk restraints.
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- Submitted: May 4, 2025
- Photographed: Apr 22, 2025
- Spider: Phidippus audax (Bold Jumper)
- Location: Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Prey
Jan 20, 2020
Jan 20, 2020
Ooooooooh. So cute
They are really adorable fuzzy critters. I didn’t know that I was getting photos of it killing a Sugar Ant When I was taking rapid photos. When it’s sunny, I can barely see the screen. I just aim my phone and tap on the image. I have a Pixel, I don’t know if the cameras on other phones track focus on the image you touch as the focal object moves. In the photo from a few seconds after this shot, the ant ilooks like an empty plastic bottle. It’s legs like limp squiggles and it’s just sticking out of the… Read more »