Flower jumping spider
The flower jumping spider is a tiny, dark jumping spider with white hairy spots. It loves to sit on the fluffy heads of plants in bogs and wet meadows. Its scientific name means that it lives on flowers.
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Fun facts
It often sits on the fluffy white heads of cotton grass, and sometimes it spins its egg bag right there.
The female is black with long white hairs and four white spots along the sides of her body.
The male is covered in golden-brown hairs, and his head has a shiny, metal-like gleam.
For a long time scientists thought the spiders in North America were a different kind. Now they know they are the same spider.
In Britain you can see it from March to September.
Most asked questions about Flower jumping spider
?Where does the flower jumping spider live?
In bogs, marshes and meadows across Europe, Asia and North America, often on the heads of plants.
?How big is the flower jumping spider?
The female is about 5.8 millimetres long and the male about 4.5 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Attulus floricola
- Named by
- C. L. Koch, 1837
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Attulus floricola (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 Jimmy Dee. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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