Bold jumping spiders are small hunters known for their excellent eyesight and rapid jumping ability. Unlike many spiders, they do not rely on webs to catch prey and instead stalk insects before ...

America’s largest jumping spider is a fast, visually guided predator capable of sudden directional leaps and rapid defensive strikes. Unlike web-building species, it actively stalks and closes ...

Louisiana is home to numerous different species of spiders, since the state's warm climate and diverse landscape makes for the perfect environment for the arachnids. While most spiders in Louisiana ...

Jumping spiders exhibit a remarkable repertoire of behaviours underpinned by a sophisticated visual system and emerging cognitive attributes. Their capacity for acute spatial resolution, rapid ...

This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

Technically, all spiders are at least slightly venomous. However, the vast majority of species in the United States are not ...

This cross section through the head of a jumping spider shows off the interior structure of four of its eight eyes. Jumping spiders have the most acute vision of any terrestrial invertebrate. In fact, ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to see a lot of spiders around my house. Up until I started doing some digging for this article, I didn’t know much about spiders. The little knowledge I did ...