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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
• 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: 31 Oct 2024