Twin-flagged jumping spider
The twin-flagged jumping spider is a tiny jumping spider that hops around on dead leaves, fences and walls. On its back it has two little flag-shaped marks made of shiny scales. They can look white, green or pink in the light.
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Fun facts
It has a clever trick for ants. It circles around until the ant faces it, then jumps onto the ant's head, where the ant's jaws cannot reach.
Before every jump it fixes a silk safety line. If it misses, it climbs back up the line.
It was first named from a drawing made in 1792, and no one kept a real spider as an example.
The mother guards her eggs in a silk nest. About 15 babies hatch at a time.
Most asked questions about Twin-flagged jumping spider
?What does the twin-flagged jumping spider eat?
Mostly ants, but also flies and small beetles.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anasaitis canosus
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1837
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Anasaitis canosus (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 platycryptus. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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