This tiny jumping spider is red with black legs. They’re very colorful and furry, with two prominent eyes. They’re much smaller than other spiders, measuring around just 10 mm long.

Many species of jumping spiders have black bodies, but some are brown, tan, or gray in color. They usually also have pale or colorful markings. These markings may be white, gray, yellow, red, blue ...

Alias: Johnson’s jumping spider, or Red backed jumping spider. Adults are small, usually about a centimeter in length. Like most jumping spiders, they have most of their eyes facing forward and ...

They found that P. regius routinely spotted termites with striped and solid black capes first. However, the spiders attacked termites in striped capes far less than they did those wearing black or ...

These tiny jumping spiders walk like ants to evade predators ... “Unlike typical ant-mimicking spiders that mimic the brown or black body color of ants, ... the red-flowering West Indian ...

The jumping spider may even be able to expand its habitat this way. To test this idea, the researchers collected S. collingwoodi, a non-mimicking jumping spider and five ant species from locations ...