Posts Tagged: Salticidae

Jump!

There's a good reason why jumping spiders are named "jumping spiders." They jump.  A jumping spider, according to National Geographic, can jump 50 times its body length.  We saw this jumping spider (family, Salticidae and probably...

Jumping spider on a petunia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Jumping spider on a petunia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of jumping spider. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of jumping spider. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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