Ten points if you can figure out what's going on here.

[alexwild@mastodon.online]

@michaelgemar I can assure you this is a real image.

[fewtbewt@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@alexwild
Animal on the left is a mimicking spider predating on the ant on the right. The ant in being held by the neck with its head pointed to the bottom right

[albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz]

@alexwild

Ant-mimic spider eating an ant?

[lasse@social.tchncs.de]

@alexwild two ants sharing one head

[michaelgemar@cosocial.ca]

@alexwild I’m sure it is! It’s just that the image of the creature(s?) came out resembling (at least to me) what a lazy AI would mash together for a generic arthropod. (Alternatively it could also be from the Burgess Shale.)

[nolitimere@toot.wales]

@fewtbewt @alexwild And the spider is missing a leg (?)

[tikitu@mastodon.social]

@alexwild it’s a spider, right? The missing leg is just to make the game even harder.

[dawcas@fe.disroot.org]

@alexwild@mastodon.online My first thought was it's a worker ant carrying a dead sister, but oh when I saw what was really going on!

A mimic spider eating!

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@alexwild

Dastardly treachery.

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@alexwild They’re forming a larger mecha by combining their spiny armors?

[roseraven@eldritch.cafe]

@alexwild A leaf is holding up 2 ants

[geckzilla@scicomm.xyz]

@alexwild ok the stump of the missing leg seemed like a big clue to me but for some reason I still didn't process it as spider until I reread and saw the hashtags. the spider is just too good

[cynthiarose@sfba.social]

@alexwild
Two ants head-butting.
……..wait……..

[seconduniverse@autistics.life]

@alexwild They're gossiping about Jessica down in Egg Processing!

[nihilistic_capybara@layer8.space]

@alexwild my first guess would've been AI generated trash but clearly mother nature found out about the existence of cubenesis mushrooms and decided to get wild with ants?

[christinemalec@mstdn.ca]

@alexwild Twister?