Grayish jumping spider
Phidippus princeps
The grayish jumping spider is a small jumping spider from Canada and the eastern United States. It has amazing eyes. It does not wait in a web, it jumps onto its food.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Canada and the eastern United States
What does it eat?
Like other jumping spiders, it hunts small insects by sneaking up and pouncing.
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)
Grayish 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
Its eyes see about ten times sharper than a dragonfly's, and dragonflies have the best eyes of all insects.
2
It uses its great eyesight to spot prey and judge exactly how far to jump.
3
It belongs to the Phidippus jumping spiders, which are often hairy and sturdy.
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Most asked questions about Grayish jumping spider
?How well can the grayish jumping spider see?
Very well. Its eyesight is about ten times sharper than a dragonfly's.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phidippus princeps
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Phidippus princeps (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 David Hill. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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