How to Use jumping spider in a Sentence

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• With brains the size of a sesame seed, jumping spiders may seem like mental lightweights.
  — National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2016
• The jumping spider has a stripy pattern on its abdomen and large black eyes.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
• Viewed from behind, a fly with its wings stretched out looks like a jumping spider facing you with its front legs up.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2017
• The researchers were studying a species of jumping spider, hoping to learn more about how these spiders cared for their young.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2018
• Adult jumping spiders are littler than a fingernail, but their vision is as clear as a small dog's.
  — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2019
• Critters like the jumping spider are very far from humans on the evolutionary tree.
  — Maddie Burakoff, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
• Clearly, when faced with a jumping spider, wearing a coat of dead ants can mean the difference between life or death to an assassin bug.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010
• Peacock spiders and other jumping spiders use internal hydraulic pumps rather than leg muscles to leap 30 times their body length.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
• Some species of jumping spider can see ultraviolet light and blue and green colors, Live Science's Stephanie Pappas reported in 2021.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
• Some newer species, such as certain ant-hunting specialists and the portia jumping spider (which will prey on fellow spiders by lowering itself from above), don’t use webs at all.
  — Lindzi Wessel, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018
• And yet, Chinese scientists have documented jumping spiders that provide their young with droplets of a nutrient-rich fluid from a furrow on the mother’s body.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2018
• Some dermatologists believe jumping spiders are the most common biting spider in the United States.
  — Caroline Blackmon, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2018
• Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Science made the discovery while following up on an observation about Toxeus magnus, a species of jumping spider that mimics ants.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
• The model can already accurately sort beluga whale calls, and Earth Species plans to apply it to species as disparate as orangutans (who bellow), elephants (who send seismic rumbles through the ground), and jumping spiders (who vibrate their legs).
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
• Most spiders, including black jumping spiders and the large argiopes, aren’t dangerous and eat pest insects, including grasshoppers, moths and caterpillars.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
• His collection includes monkeys, pigeon chicks, jumping spiders, and fetal sheep.
  — Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
• Miniature Treadmills and a Light Show Studying a jumping spider’s image processing is not as straightforward as implanting electrodes in its brain, as scientists might do with a larger animal.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 15 July 2021
• With his son Chris, now 21, Knode set up a spooky, interactive Halloween experience across his front lawn, complete with strobe lights, jumping spiders, robotic characters and inflatables, skeletons, snakes, ghosts and ghouls.
  — Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• See different species of colorful beetles, ants and an ant mound, a cicada, butterflies, a firefly, a stink bug, a ladybug, a peacock jumping spider, a dragonfly, a walking stick, a katydid, a caterpillar and a hissing cockroach.
  — The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2022
• Students researched various spiders before settling on the daring jumping spider – formal name Phidippus audax.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 June 2021

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024