Pike slender jumper
The pike slender jumper is a jumping spider with a long, thin body, almost like a little stick. It likes to lie stretched out along a blade of grass, with two pairs of legs pointing forward and two pairs pointing back. That way it is very hard to spot.
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Fun facts
When it sits still you can hardly find it, but when it moves it is very quick and jerky.
Its big front legs are not used for walking. It holds them out in front of its body.
When a male sees a female, he walks up to her waving his front legs.
The male has a wide black stripe along its body and orange front legs. The female is paler, cream with black speckles.
Most asked questions about Pike slender jumper
?How big is the pike slender jumper?
About 8 millimetres long, not counting the legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Marpissa pikei
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Long-bodied jumping spider
Where the facts come from
- Marpissa pikei (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 spidereyes2020. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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