Woodland jumping spider
Evarcha falcata
The woodland jumping spider is a small hairy spider that hunts by looking and jumping. It has two big round eyes at the front of its face. The boys are brown with white stripes, while the girls are plain brown and fuzzy.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe and Asia, from Turkey and Russia to Kazakhstan and China
Length
4.3 to 7.7 mm (0.17 to 0.3 in)
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects. It does not spin a web to catch them, but sneaks up and pounces.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4 seconds⚡moves 33 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Woodland jumping spider about 0.91 km/h (0.57 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
It hunts in the daytime and has very good eyesight.
2
It moves through thick grass, searching for something to eat.
3
It loves sunny, dry spots at the edges of woods and in clearings.
4
Grown up spiders can be found from March to November.
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Most asked questions about Woodland jumping spider
?How big is the woodland jumping spider?
About 4 to 8 millimetres long. The females are a little bigger than the males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Evarcha falcata
- Named by
- Clerck, 1757
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Evarcha falcata (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 Please report references to [email protected] .. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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