A Micrathena spiny orb weaver feeds on a fly she has caught.

Armenia, Belize
The delicate build and sabre-like pedipalps of this Brazilian corinnid spider help it to mimic the painfully-stinging trap-jaw ants of the genus Odontomachus.

Morretes, Paraná, Brazil
Aphantochilus rogersi (left) is a convincing mimic of its prey, turtle ants in the genus Cephalotes.
Entomologist Tom Myers watches a Paraphrynus tailless whipscorpion in a Belizean cave.

Armenia, Belize
A two-tailed spider (Hersiliidae) rests on a tree trunk in an urban forest fragment.

Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
The delicate build and sabre-like pedipalps of this Brazilian clubionid spider help it to mimic the painfully-stinging trap-jaw ants of the genus Odontomachus.

Morretes, Paraná, Brazil
Close-up photograph of a lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum).

Laboratory animal at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) is instantly recognizable by the central white marking.

Laboratory animal at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis

Laboratory animal at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Micrathena spiny orb weaver feeds on a fly she has caught.

Armenia, Belize
A Micrathena spiny orb weaver feeds on a fly she has caught.

Armenia, Belize
A Micrathena spiny orb weaver feeds on a fly she has caught.

Armenia, Belize
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