10. Whitman’s Jumping Spider. Whitman’s jumping spider has a red furry body, though its legs and underside are black. They have tiny white spines covering their legs, giving them a grey ...

These spiders are black with orange or white spots on the back of the abdomen. They are most commonly found in gardens and ...

Alias: Johnson’s jumping spider, or Red backed jumping spider. Adults are small, usually about a centimeter in length. Like most jumping spiders, they have most of their eyes facing forward and ...

Though they tend to be black, with a white blob on their back and white banding on their body, their mouthparts are typically a bright, iridescent blue. The word “bold” was attached to the species ...

Jumping spiders are not dangerous to humans, ... The animal often has an orange and white spot on its abdomen. ... such as diatomaceous earth, glass cleaner, black or red pepper, ...

For jumping spiders, the ability to see red may have evolved as a way to avoid toxic prey. But once this new world of color was available to the spiders, they put it to good use.

Learning to distinguish the color red means jumping spiders can stay alive longer and eat pests ranging from caterpillars to beetles to flies, many of which damage agricultural products. Jumping ...

Rule number one in nature: Find a way NOT to get eaten. You can run or fight or hide--or you can look like something that tastes horrible. It appears that a type of jumping spider takes that to ...

Jumping spiders have brains about the size of a poppy seed, and Hoy credits the success of probing even tinier spots inside these (anesthetized) brains to Cornell coauthor Gil Menda and his rock ...

The jumping spider may even be able to expand its habitat this way. To test this idea, the researchers collected S. collingwoodi, a non-mimicking jumping spider and five ant species from locations ...