Bleeker's jumper
Bleeker's jumper is a jumping spider with a shiny dark body and orange markings. Instead of building a web, it goes out and hunts. It lives in thick bushes and tangly vines near coasts and streams.
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Fun facts
It does not use a web to catch its food.
It makes a flat, tightly woven egg sac and hides it near its nest, sometimes in rolled-up leaves.
Young males are often more orange-brown than the grown-ups.
Males and females both have a whitish band of tiny scales around the middle of their body.
The female is about 12 millimetres long, twice as long as the male.
Most asked questions about Bleeker's jumper
?Does Bleeker's jumper make a web?
Not for catching food. It hunts instead, and uses silk for its nest and egg sac.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euryattus bleekeri
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Bleeker's jumping spider
Where the facts come from
- Euryattus bleekeri (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 Graham Wise from Brisbane, Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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