Cardinal jumping spider
Phidippus cardinalis
The cardinal jumping spider is a small, furry jumping spider. That trick helps keep hungry animals away.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
The southern and eastern USA, Colorado and Mexico
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects by sneaking up and jumping on them.
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)
Cardinal jumping spider about 0.8 km/h (0.5 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Velvet ants are not really ants. They are wingless wasps.
2
It has been found as far west as Colorado.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phidippus cardinalis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Cardinal jumper
Where the facts come from
- Phidippus cardinalis (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 Thomas Shahan. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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