Pantropical jumping spider
The pantropical jumping spider is a sturdy, furry spider that hunts by leaping on its prey. The male is black with bold white stripes, so his face looks like it has three white stripes. It often lives on buildings, near lamps where insects gather.
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It does not spin a web. It sleeps in a little silk tent, often high up near the ceiling, and goes out hunting from there.
It has very sharp eyes. It sneaks close, crouches and then jumps up to 5 centimetres onto its prey.
Sometimes its prey flies or runs away with the spider still hanging on, until the spider wins.
The mother hides 35 to 60 eggs in a silk case and guards them for three to four weeks until the babies come out.
In African homes it helps people by eating mosquitoes.
Most asked questions about Pantropical jumping spider
?How big is a pantropical jumping spider?
About 1 centimetre long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Plexippus paykulli
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Plexippus paykulli (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 Gerard Chartier. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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