Canopy jumping spider
Phidippus otiosus
The canopy jumping spider is a fuzzy jumping spider that lives up in the trees. Its jaws shine in purple or green, like a soap bubble. It has tufts of black hair on its head.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Southeastern United States, on oak and pine trees
Length
1.6 cm (0.63 in)
What does it eat?
Like all jumping spiders, it hunts small insects by sneaking up and pouncing on them.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 2.8 seconds⚡moves 23 times its own body length every second
How big is Canopy jumping spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Canopy jumping spider about 1.3 km/h (0.81 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The mother hides her egg sac under the bark of oak and pine trees.
2
One egg sac can hold from 19 to 150 eggs.
3
It has sometimes travelled across the ocean hidden in plants, and has been found in Sweden and Germany.
4
A female can grow to about 1.6 centimetres long.
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Most asked questions about Canopy jumping spider
?Where does the canopy jumping spider live?
In the southeastern United States, mostly high up in trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phidippus otiosus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Phidippus otiosus (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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