Magnolia green jumper
The magnolia green jumper is a small, see-through green jumping spider with long legs. Around its eyes it has a little crown of red, orange, yellow or white scales. It likes to sit on the big shiny leaves of magnolia trees.
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Fun facts
Like other jumping spiders, it has some of the sharpest eyes of any small creature.
It can jump three to four times its own body length, which is short for a jumping spider, so it often ambushes prey from close by.
When two males meet, they wave their front legs at each other. If neither backs off, they push against each other until one gives up.
The mother lays 25 to 70 pale green eggs under a leaf and guards them until they hatch.
It belongs to one of the oldest groups of jumping spiders.
Most asked questions about Magnolia green jumper
?Where do magnolia green jumpers live?
On magnolia and other trees in the southeastern United States, especially in Florida.
?How big is a magnolia green jumper?
Females are 7 to 8 millimetres long and males 5 to 6 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lyssomanes viridis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Lyssomanes viridis (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 round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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