Asiatic wall jumping spider
Attulus fasciger
The Asiatic wall jumping spider is a tiny mottled brown and grey spider, just 3 to 4 millimetres long. It has eight eyes and very good eyesight. It loves to hunt on the walls of houses.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Northern and western Asia, and now North America, often on buildings
Length
3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in)
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects, especially the ones that gather around lamps on buildings at night.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 5.5 seconds⚡moves 45 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Asiatic wall jumping spider about 0.65 km/h (0.4 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It came to North America by accident, and was first seen there in the 1950s or 1960s.
2
Its brown and grey pattern helps it hide on walls.
3
Lamps on buildings attract insects at night, so this spider can keep hunting after dark.
4
The male has a slimmer body than the female and bigger black feelers near his mouth.
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Most asked questions about Asiatic wall jumping spider
?How big is the Asiatic wall jumping spider?
Only 3 to 4 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Attulus fasciger
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Attulus fasciger (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Kaldari. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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