Peppered jumping spider
Pelegrina galathea
The peppered jumping spider is a small jumping spider that loves sunny, grassy places. Like all jumping spiders, it does not wait in a web. It sneaks up on small insects and pounces on them.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, from Canada to Costa Rica
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects by creeping close and then jumping onto them.
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)
Peppered 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
It is found only in North and Central America, from Canada down to Costa Rica.
2
It is usually found in sunlit, grassy areas.
3
It belongs to the jumping spider family, which hunts by sight and leaps onto prey.
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Most asked questions about Peppered jumping spider
?Where does the peppered jumping spider live?
From Canada to Costa Rica, in sunny grassy places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pelegrina galathea
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Peppered jumper
Where the facts come from
- Pelegrina galathea (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 Zygy. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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