Hoary servaea
The hoary servaea is a jumping spider from Australia that likes to stay up at night. It makes its nest under loose bark on gum trees. It is orange and yellow with dark patterns, and the males are often greyish.
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Fun facts
It can run up to 14.5 centimetres in one second, which is very fast for a spider this small.
Although it is a jumping spider, it does not jump very often.
When a male courts a female, he does a zigzag dance from side to side.
A male may build his own little nest next to a young female and wait for her to grow up.
Most asked questions about Hoary servaea
?What does the hoary servaea eat?
Mostly ants, but also other small insects and spiders.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Servaea incana
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Servaea incana (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 P.D. Amara. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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