Here's a video featuring the one that we're taking a look at today- and yes, it is a jumping spider. It's exhibiting behaviour that you wouldn't really see of a spider in the wild, but that would mostly be due to the fact that there are no laser pointers in the wild.
...By which I mean to say, it's a spider chasing a green laser pointer around in circles. Give it a watch! And here's what that spider looks like in closeup. As with many other spiders, they're sexually dimorphic, which means the females look different from the males. THe first two are of girls, like the spider in the video is, and the last is of a boy. This jumping spider is known as Platycryptus undatus, and they're one of the friendlier species of jumping spiders and are quite likely to investigate a human hand if it's brought near to them. They can also be found all over America, up into Canada and down to Texas, and as they're fairly large for jumping spiders- over a cm in length- also easily spotted.
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And as ever...
Spiders!
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Here's a video featuring the one that we're taking a look at today- and yes, it is a jumping spider. It's exhibiting behaviour that you wouldn't really see of a spider in the wild, but that would mostly be due to the fact that there are no laser pointers in the wild.
...By which I mean to say, it's a spider chasing a green laser pointer around in circles. Give it a watch! And here's what that spider looks like in closeup. As with many other spiders, they're sexually dimorphic, which means the females look different from the males. THe first two are of girls, like the spider in the video is, and the last is of a boy. This jumping spider is known as Platycryptus undatus, and they're one of the friendlier species of jumping spiders and are quite likely to investigate a human hand if it's brought near to them. They can also be found all over America, up into Canada and down to Texas, and as they're fairly large for jumping spiders- over a cm in length- also easily spotted.
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