Adanson's house jumper
Hasarius adansoni
Name means: “named after the French naturalist Michel Adanson”
Adanson's house jumper is a little jumping spider that likes to live near people. The male is mostly black with a red mask on his face and white patches that shimmer like the inside of a seashell. The female is dark brown.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Warm places all around the world, often in and around houses and greenhouses
Length
6 to 8 mm (0.24 to 0.31 in)
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects by jumping on them.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.9 seconds⚡moves 32 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)
Adanson's house jumper about 0.92 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
Every night it spins a small silk tent to sleep in, about twice as long as its body.
2
Scientists described this spider again and again under new names, 86 times by the year 2012.
3
It has moved into greenhouses around the world, even in several zoos in Germany.
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Most asked questions about Adanson's house jumper
?Where does Adanson's house jumper live?
In warm places around the world, often close to people, in houses and greenhouses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hasarius adansoni
- Named by
- Audouin, 1826
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Hasarius adansoni (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 Peter Webb. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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