These Australian natives are not venomous and are too small, and the only correct way for them to protect themselves was to pretend to be someone dangerous. Female scorpion-tailed spider (lat. Arachnura higginsi), growing up to 16-20 mm in length, acquired incredible tails, becoming like scorpions. And tailless males, whose growth barely reaches 2 mm, hope that predators simply will not notice them.
Resourceful female scorpion-tail spiders imitated not only the tail and sandy-yellow coloration of scorpions, but also learned to raise their tail exactly like these aggressive and poisonous predators. Displaying a spiked tail tip and a menacing posture, they pretend they are about to attack and sting the enemy.
Like all orb-weavers, scorpion-tailed spiders weave a round-shaped trapping net, about a meter in diameter, placing it at a height of one to two meters.