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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They are all spiders, but if it hadn't said they were all spiders I could have still just looked at that guy with little scrutiny and went "wait a minute..." He looks the least ant-like.

[โ€“] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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.)