How to Use jumping spider in a Sentence

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  • Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • But that isn’t to say that all jumping spiders are the same in terms of their appearance.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For all their spider smarts and adaptability, jumping spiders aren't long-lived.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Hess, who posts under the handle @mini_robomuppets, owns about a dozen jumping spiders, and each has a distinct personality.
    — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Those spiders were the gateway bugs into the booming community of jumping spider pet owners.
    — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • His collection includes monkeys, pigeon chicks, jumping spiders, and fetal sheep.
    — Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Though all jumping spiders spin silk, almost all jumping spider species forgo weaving webs to trap and incapacitate their food.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Sadly, there are no dedicated citizen science projects for your pet iguana, hamster or jumping spider yet, but stay tuned!
    — Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Phidippus regius, commonly known as the regal jumping spider, is the largest type found in North America.
    — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But Ars reached out to two spider experts who both said the spider is, without a doubt, in the family of jumping spiders (Salticidae).
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some dermatologists believe jumping spiders are the most common biting spider in the United States.
    — Caroline Blackmon, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 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
  • 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
  • During a 2023 blitz, students discovered a completely new species of jumping spider, and then promptly found thirty more individuals from the same species across campus.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • On a Sunday afternoon in San Jose, a teenage girl in a witch’s hat rushed toward a table piled with crystal jewelry while down the aisle a boy in a Spider-Man suit stopped to stare wide-eyed at a jumping spider crawling in a display case.
    — Sonia Mankame, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025

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