Ant mimicking spiders and Ants

As I already posted on my previous post Spiders, I had seen an ant mimicking spider not much after acquiring macro range. First sighting was simple one in the sense that the spider I saw was mimicking one of the most abundant type of ants around. Few days later however I saw another different looking ant mimicking spider and wondered why it is trying to look like so weird looking ant (I had never seen any such ant whom that spider was apparently mimicking). Soon after, I also found an Ant that looked like the second spider. Or, I should say, ant that spider was mimicking.

In hindsight, I find my reaction 'why is it mimicking so weird ant' appears so unintelligent! If there is someone mimicking an ant, the ant must (most likely) be there and I should have thought, 'I am yet to see kind of ant it mimics'. A good observer sees what is in front of his/her eyes and also what it (probably) implies. Lot of room for improvement in my observations..

Spiders

I probably was never introduced as fast to anything else as to jumping spiders. from being only in enviable shots of others, they went on to become most commonly seen creature everywhere around. and no wonder. Wikipedia says there are some 5000 species of jumping spiders alone. so all you need is ability to see them, they are there anyways. but even after my illusion of their rarity was shattered, they were still the most attractive subjects. Its just wonderful to see their big and so many eyes, and watching them watching and interacting with you, sometime withdrawing but at other times jumping towards camera, evaluating your interestingness or simply ignoring you. and, I just love it when they (or anything else) continue showing interest even after apparently concluding camera/me is no threat (no signs of fear or aggression) or a possible meal. i.e. when curiosity meets curiosity :-). One fascinating thing about spiders in general is sizes they come in. I haven't been successful at photographing very very small ones, but have already seen some unimaginably small ones within first few weeks of having macro range lens in hand.

Noticed the below one while trying for a banded phintella, much smaller than and unlike banded phintella, this one wasn't too camera shy. 

Like the below one for its tones and carefree pose of the spider.

Seeing an ant mimicking spider was high on my wish list. and last among the findings so far, but it did show up.