Brilliant jumping spider
The brilliant jumping spider is a fairly big jumping spider, usually red-brown with darker markings. It likes to wait upside down near the top of a plant. When an insect comes by, it leaps down before the insect can escape.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
In one test, a spider ate 41 fruit flies in just four hours.
When males compete for a female, the winner is often the one that makes the most vibrations.
A mother lays about 135 eggs. Unlike most of her relatives, she has only one family in her life.
In a survey in Minnesota, more than half of all jumping spiders found were this kind.
It may help farmers by eating plant bugs that damage basil.
Most asked questions about Brilliant jumping spider
?What does the brilliant jumping spider eat?
Insects, other spiders and small creatures, which it pounces on.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phidippus clarus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Phidippus clarus (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 David Hill. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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