At one Messor pergandei nest in particular,
we noticed a large number of ant corpses decorating the vegetation
around the nest. Most of the pictures on the previous page in which
the vegetation is dry and yellow were taken at this site. Sure enough, we
soon saw a male Euryopis dragging an ant.
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Instead of dragging the ant off of the midden and up one of the stems
around the midden, however, this spider dragged the ant over to a
potato sized rock that was near the entrance of the Messor pergandei
nest.
The photo on the far right shows a Euryopis
male walking near a nest. The photo on the near right shows a
Euryopis that has captured a Messor pergandei.
I am not sure what the white substance that looks like plastic is on
the M. pergandei's head, my assumption is
that it is congealed spider web.
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When the Euryopis reached the rock, I noticed that
there was another Euryopis, a female, also
on the rock.
If you look in the lower right hand corner of the photo to the far left, you can
see the both the female and the male Euryopis,
as well as the male's prey. The nearer of the photos has another view
of the female Euryopis
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Euryopis sp., next page
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