Jumping spider sits on a table. Image by Erik Karits via Pexels. Jumping spiders, like the Carrhotus xanthogramma, have evolved intricate hunting techniques which hinge on stable environmental cues.

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Typically, the spiders you encounter in gardens are web-spinning orb-weavers or agile hunters like jumping spiders and wolf spiders. These spiders are predators, feeding on a variety of insects, which ...

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Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin, they can produce silk. Some species are known to spin fine threads as they leap, presumably to stabilize takeoff and ensure a more ...

Harvard University has been inspired by a jumping spider to develop a novel distance sensor. The spider (family salticidae) hunts by ambushing prey, leaping onto it from a distance, and to do this it ...

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New York has a variety of spiders, but none dangerously poisonous to humans such as the Black Widow or Brown Recluse. This slideshow features those spiders commonly found in this state.