![]() ![]() Zebra jumping spiders are especially frequent in or around: This species is usually found around urban and suburban areas where it is often seen hunting on the walls of buildings where the sun warms the surface. These spiders commonly inhabit gardens and may accidentally be brought indoors where they like to live on doorways, walls, and windows. Zebra jumping spiders were previously brought to the United States from Europe and Asia and now its normal range is southern Canada and the entire United States, though it doesn't appear to be common in the Rocky Mountain states. The spider attaches the "bungee cord" to the vertical wall, then leaps onto its prey and traps it so its meal cannot escape. They have an interesting behavior of capturing prey by using a strand of silk like a bungee cord that is attached to the surface on which they are hunting – the side of a house, for example. Their prey is any insect or other spider that the Zebra jumping spider can overpower. Instead, they use their web to protect the egg sacs at their nighttime hiding sites. Zebra jumping spiders are hunting spiders that do not spin a web to catch prey. Males have very large, dark fangs that project forward, unlike most other spider species whose fangs extend down. ![]() Size: Females and males are similar in size, ranging from about 1/8 to 1/4 inch long.Ĭharacteristics: Females are often lighter in color than the males. Abdomen: The abdomen has white or light-colored hairs arranged in opposing stripes with a solid band of white around the front part of the abdomen.īody: The cephalothorax (united head and thorax) on the zebra jumping spider has a white lateral band of hairs with additional white hairs and lustrous scales that appear near the region of their eyes.Įyes: As with other species of jumping spiders, they have eight eyes with the center two eyes appearing large and prominent, thus providing the jumping spider group with possibly the best vision of any other group of arthropods. ![]()
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