Metallic blue jumper
The metallic blue jumper is a small jumping spider that shines green and blue like a jewel. Females are greener and males bluer. Unlike most jumping spiders, it builds a little house by stitching two green leaves together.
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Fun facts
To stick two leaves together it makes silk rivets. Each rivet takes about half an hour, and a nest has four to ten of them.
It often builds its nest on a plant called the spider lily.
Its white egg sacs are two to three times bigger than the spider itself.
In Southeast Asia, people keep the males in matchboxes and let them fight. A spider that wins again and again is called first king.
Scientists have counted twelve different moves that males use when they fight, including pushing.
Most asked questions about Metallic blue jumper
?Why is it called the fighting spider?
Because two males fight each other whenever they meet, and people in Southeast Asia have spider fighting games.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thiania bhamoensis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Fighting spider
Where the facts come from
- Thiania bhamoensis (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 Victor Koo. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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