Oak jumping spider
The oak jumping spider is a tiny, flat jumping spider, only 3 to 4 millimetres long. Its pale yellow legs have dark stripes, like little socks. It lives on oak trees and bushes at the edge of the woods, where it hunts by jumping on small insects.
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Fun facts
The males are darker than the females and have thick, dark front legs.
In summer the mother spins a flat silk tent under a leaf and guards her eggs inside it.
Its scientific name comes from an old Greek word for steel.
In central Europe it is quite common, so you might spot one on an oak leaf.
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?How big is the oak jumping spider?
Only about 3 to 4 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ballus chalybeius
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ballus chalybeius (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 This image is created by user B. Schoenmakers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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