Ant-eating spider is a 3-star creature card from the Industrial Age. Zodarion spiders hunt only ants, biting and then waiting for the venom to work.
Bonus by grade
| Grade | Copies needed | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 0 | +10% critical hit chance |
| Uncommon | 2 | +18% critical hit chance |
| Rare | 5 | +30% critical hit chance |
| Epic | 10 | +45% critical hit chance |
| Legendary | 20 | +70% critical hit chance |
Duplicates raise the grade: Uncommon at 2, Rare at 5, Epic at 10, Legendary at 20.
Codex
- Common: Zodarion spiders are small ground hunters.
- Uncommon: They feed almost only on ants.
- Rare: They bite an ant, then step back.
- Epic: When the venom takes hold, they return to feed.
- Legendary: Some smell like ants to get close.
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Field guide
| Size | Adults about 3 to 5 mm long |
| Nest | Hunts on the ground near ant colonies; shelters in a small silk igloo |
| Diet | Ants only, usually medium-sized ones |
| Defence | Tiny and harmless to people; it avoids ant bites by striking fast then backing off |
| Active | Day; one study found most activity in late afternoon |
| Lifespan | Not well known |
| Where it lives | Europe and the Mediterranean; mostly on bare, sunny ground with ground-nesting ants |
Did you know?
- It lunges at an ant's most stretched-out leg, and the whole attack lasts under a second.
- It often eats the protein-rich front of the ant first, then the fatty rear.
- Spiders fed only ant rear ends died within six weeks in a lab test.
Sources: americanarachnology.org, livescience.com, arachnology.cz