Jumping spiders can live up to their name. These spiders don't hunt by snaring prey in a web, but rather they stalk their quarry and then leap. Despite their tiny body size, jumping spiders can leap up to 6.3 inches (160 mm), according to a 2018 paper in the journal Scientific Reports. The spiders often spin a little silk and set a thread-like "anchor" before they leap, which may help stabilize their flight and protect them in case their landing is off. Jumping spiders most often jump to catch their prey, but sometimes leap to flee danger. They can also be quite clever
🔥 Jumping Spiders- Considered Cutest arachnids are damn fast 🔥
I have arachnophobia, but not even that fella got me. There's just something about jumping spiders that makes them seem a lot less threatening.. I think it might have something to do with their intelligence.
I read that these Jumping spiders have four pairs of eyes and one pair at the front, so it gives them a comical look and they look cute to humans. That's why they don't look threatening even for people with arachnophobia
They have an appearance that gives them a “face” so to speak, with the large forward facing eyes
Most other spiders eyes aren’t overly visible, and you just see their big fucking fangs
This. They invoke the 'cute' response from hoomans.
Imagine if some alien species could mimic this cuteness triggering sensors in humans and we wouldn't stand a chance against them.
Exactly 😅
This just makes me think moopsy is the cute version of Cell from DBZ. Though Cell drank entire bodies leaving nothing behind the Moopsy is out here waving empty skin around after it's finished.
Flailing it on the ground to make sure it drank all the bones...
The captions are even better...
<fusses> Moopsy!
That must be the larval form of Catbug.
That's some dark childhood...
lol this is perfect
This lol
*evoke
They have 2 large, and I mean Large, complex eyes facing forward. It's to give them binocular vision to judge distances. But that also makes them appear cute. And yes, like most spiders, they have extra simple eyes to see close to 360°
They're adorable, yet the bane of that fly's existence.
That and the large front pair of eyes have special rod structures that they can move around to better focus on objects.
Hello, I have arachnophobia. Like hell I'm even getting close enough to see the creature's fucking EYES. The video posted above gave me a legit shiver!
That makes SO much more sense
They got those big ol anime eyes.
Jumping spiders are exempt from arachnophobia. Their proportions just don't work with it.
Also the way they move. I feel like people hate the fact that spiders either run very fast or move very creepily slowly but the jumping spider moves so fast it looks like it's teleporting even when it's just moving and not jumping/attacking. I feel like my eyes can't even focus on it before it's already framerate shifted.
And then they slowly turn and look at you as if to say "Oh, hi".
and overall they are moving in pauses, so their leg movement pattern is completely different from other spiders, and as someone with mild arachnophobia the movement is probably one of the bigger part of it. Regular spiders are completely insane, unstoppable and unpredictable which triggers the arachnophobia, but with jumping spiders it's usually very clear where it is going, and it's pretty slow in terms of distance covered, except jumping (and with jumping again it's usually pretty clear when it wants to do so). It's more like a cat on a hunt than a spider.
Also their eyes are much larger compared to the size of their heads, and they can move their heads separately which gives them a much more anthropomorphic look than the dead eyes and static heads of most spiders.
They all look like they have a really important question to ask, but they’re too shy to ask it. They’re adorable.
I know with arachnids, the things that give me the mortal fear is the type of body shape and the ratio of leg to body. Scorpions? Fine. Ticks? I should be more scared because of the disastrous disease risk, but fine. Wolf spiders? Kill it with fire. These guys are very compact little tanks and I’m cool with it.
I think it's how close their legs are to the body, looks less creepy and alien.
Nah... nah, that one did it for me. Too big.
I got news for ya, you don't have arachnophobia
I'm pretty sure I do. Even now that I'm older spiders can still give me panic attacks and I can have trouble sleeping if I 'accidentally' think of them.
It just doesn't work like that for me regarding jumping spiders and and harvestmen.. but those are probably not exceptions for everyone with arachnophobia :)
It’s because they’re cute as the dickens.
Nope!! That one got me! I'm fine with small jumping spiders, but not this one
And that’s a male which means the females are probably a lot bigger.
It certainly doesn’t look cute at this size though, the way its head moves is very creepy. I have Tarantulas and that thing moves so much different.
See, I think for me, it's partly the hair. Hairy spiders like jumping spiders, tarantulas, and even some like wolf spiders, don't bother me as much.
Other "types" of spiders, I ain't fuckin with it.
That is a big one...
I knew what video this was before I clicked on it. Absolutely gigantic (for a jumping spider). And still oddly charming. Jumping spiders always look so curious and personable to me. Maybe it’s the way they look around at things and their big eyes.
Yeah I consider myself lucky when I rarely spot them around the house/garden ect. Super cool little things.
he's a big motherfucker but an endearing motherfucker nonetheless. i love how he tries tapping the camera with one of his legs, reminds me of how my cat does that to me when he wants something.
Hanus!
Relatively big, Still small
Come on! A clip about a jumping spider without jump scare in the end? Utterly disappointed
😂
Relevant sci-fi book recommendation: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
PORTIA
Or A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.
I'm reading it now! Was wondering if that spider was a Portia...
Nah, their species are pretty distinct looking: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/372259-Portia-labiata
So cute O.O
What if they launched with the comedy boing sound?
Perhaps trey do!
Everyone in this thread should read The Children of Time
I wouldn't mind if they grew big enough to take on the squirrels here.
They’re really smart too and interact with people
They’re really smart too and interact with people
You wouldn't believe it.
In the mid-90s I wanted to do an AI project based on a simple organism. A mixture of planning and behaviour. So, real symbolic AI. Not those signal-in signal-out black boxes grifters are currently calling AI.
I decided I wanted to do jumping spiders because those which build webs seemed more complicated. Seemed.
There is a guy who has written paper over paper on jumping spiders. David E Hill's papers on those mofos are unironically riveting. He had observed several modes of approach on prey which to mee looked an awful lot like spatial reasoning.
The spiders are crazy smart and I already had been reprimanded for hogging all the server time for my simulations so I went with an orb-weaver and modelled the web building as a pure resource and pretended I had not read half a dozen of papers on the ethology of the genus Phidippus.
It is a wild rabbit hole to fall down since David E Hill has published quite a few papers since the mid-70s.
This is fascinating man. Spiders are one among the smartest animals on earth. Did you manage to develop your ai idea?
Nah. Well not with that spider. Spacial reasoning was well out of scope. I had a task-net planner and a bit of behavioral LISP stuff and had planned to use SIPE for watching it. It has been a couple of decades since then.
Went for a resource consumption model with a net. Need insects to repair net. Need to predict if to repair net is worth it. Babbies first bullshit compared to what could have been done simulating the spider. I could have simulated the twigs for the spider as a series of nodes and vertices and turned the tree traversal into a tree walker.
But then I had no idea how to simplify stuff and decided that visualizing a spider in VRML is a thing I wouldn't want to comit on just ofr one grade of many.
Predators that stalk their prey are relatively smart because they take more decisions than grazers, for example.
Yes and just like Octopi, jumping spiders pass the mirror test as well
According to David E Hill they show signs of spatial reasoning when they approach their prey. That guy managed to spend 40 years watching salticidae and wrote a lot of papers on it. And those are a really great read.
Links links links!
Knock yourself out!
That guy has been publishing since the 1970s well into the 2020s. We absolutely need to give grants to cool stuff without asking for the application. Science for science's sake.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Hill-14
This is so the opposite of the muskified mess we live in. I left German academia at the same time and for nearly the same reason as Sabine Hossenfelder only that I did not suffer through sexism and bailed completely.
Thankfully being a frustrated computer scientist in the late 90s did not lead to starvation. You may have to contact David directly for the papers. Because science publishing is a scam.
Not the person they were describing, but this is my go-to link for all that kind of thing. Plenty about spatial reasoning in here.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568049/full
Thank you!!!
As do pigeons...
A while back I was on my computer and there was a jumping spider on the wall close to me. Little dude seemed to be looking at me and I just left him alone because I have zero issues with jumping spiders being in my house.
Then it just, jumps on my arm and looks up at me from there.
It was a serious what the fuck is going on behind those black eyes moment. A lot of insects and spiders are very aware when they are standing on something or someone. So why did the spider do it? I have zero idea to this day other than it was curious?
Spiders have a whole different kind of intelligence about them.
Yes that’s the reason, they’re curious creatures
Yes! When I was a kid we would catch their attention by lying on the ground and dangling our fingers from our chins to act like other spiders in front of them.
So far….
tbf, they would jump slower and slower relative to their size the bigger they got (thanks to the square cube law)
Jumping spiders are curious and docile. I wouldn't be surprised if it was consciously showing off in this video. The much smarter Portia is what you should be worried about being bigger.
Jumpers the size of cats would be hunting deer.
I want a dog sized jumping spider
I would easily have a gaggle of these in my home any day.
I was taking down my trampoline the other day and saw one like 3 times this size that was black with an orange stripe, looked sick af
If you check out the peacock jumping spider for super cute.
There’s jumping tigers
I want these in Hell Divers 2!
Pest ctrl
No way that fly could esc.
Never saw a shift in its determination.
Thought didn't even enter its mind
You should probably clean your laptop more often if there are whole ass nature documentaries being filmed on it.
Gonna get Attenborough to narrate this shit.
Sorry, we could only afford Gervais.
Karl Pilkington and it’s a deal.
I would vote for Ze Frank
🤣
Plenty of bait there for critters
It is pretty nasty lookin
Rude.
But not untrue
I like how it looks at the camera like “oh sorry were you gonna eat this?”
He was like, want to share human?
"I broughted u a gift, hooman!"
No it’s “I caught it with my bare legs! DID YOU NOT JUST SEE?!”
Yes! This! Haha
these things look you straight in the eyes every time. or the camera.
so fucking adorable, smart tiny hunter critters
Was anyone else kind of hoping for a kitty butt wiggle right before it pounced on the fly?
It did wiggle its spinnerets.
Those mofos still produce their life-line while they are jumping. And one would think that since this is quickly produced thread it is going to be bad thread. It is among the best stuff ever to leave a spider's spinnerets. These mofos casually produce the best thread mid-air and use the line to steer towards their prey.
And that is just the jump. They do actual spatial reasoning when they are locked on. And they will take detours when they anticipate a better strategic positions. They plan ahead and plan a complex path.
They have something resembling it. Once you watch them for enough time, you can say "oh look! it's preparing to jump! Whoah! did you see that?".
waited 'til the fly thought "good to go"...
Go frame-by-frame. The spider reacted to the fly taking off. In the milliseconds it took the fly to take off, the spider saw it, jumped and reached it.
I wish we had some very high FPS video recording of this event :(
The fly even with his multiple sections of eyes wouldn't have seen the Spidey coming
They also dance, sometimes to appear bigger and sometimes to attract mates. And sometimes with maracas
Ah yes, the flamboyant butt wiggle dance
Dude, why is your keyboard so filthy? You know that flies landing on your keyboard isn’t a good sign, right?
You can even see crumbs falling across the camera mid video lol
OMG, I completely missed that! -shudder-
I want a huge community of those at my house!!
Chances are pretty good you already have one, you just don't know it. Most are small, even smaller than the nail on your pinky (as you can see in the video, they're about housefly sized) and they are pretty good at being unseen.
No need for pest control then
Why I usually leave any spiders in my house alone (except for the black widows and brown recluses)
Nature on your keyboard 👀
Fly should’ve used the ESC key.
Fly thought it had the situation under CTRL
It was the END of the fly, and the spider is going HOME.
cntl alt deleted that bastard
I am not arachnophobic, but am entomophobic.
The enemy of my enemy, is my friend.
Same, I despise insects with a passion and have a fear of their larvae/maggot/caterpillar. At least spiders don't fly around being annoying, deliberately bite me, or eat my food.
Fly came for all the weed dust on the keyboard, spider came for dinner.
Couldn't have done it without the fly bait keyboard!
Master class in predation right there.
Comparable to the stealth of a Tiger right
I once had one of these little guys recued me from a mozzie.
The mozzie was on my hand, I suddenly realised i was being bitten, I looked down and then a jumping spider jumped out, grabbed him, and then swung back on a web. I could see him swinging left and right while chowing down on the mozzie.
Very impressive! And FAST.
this needs a UFC fight number and jre commentary lol
My wife saw a jumping spider above her car door one day with a fly in it's grasp. When my wife approached it dropped the fly(which rolled down the door, and onto the ground) and scampered back a few feet on the roof. My wife picked up the fly from the ground and placed it nearby the spider on the roof. The spider sat there for a moment, then went over to the fly, picked it up, walked a little closer to my wife, stared at her for a sec, then scampered away to one of the roof rack rails.
She said they had a 'moment'.
Odd how a fly can see your hand approaching from 5 feet but can’t see a spider standing a few inches away with dinner fork in hand
You can do this too if you come in really really slowly and anticipate that the fly will jump slightly backwards when it takes off.
I had this small black and white spider crawling on my shirt, it looked like it had a zebra pattern on it. I have arachnophobia (but I'm almost over it) and I went to flick it and it jumped on my face. We're talking almost a foot straight up. I almost died because I was driving at the time 💀
The reason for that is simple
Fly and other insect are fast as fuck
So the spider ask evolution for some extra speed
Little did they know is not enough
unrelated but wtf uplifting and scary beats why put together
And they can see the moon.
He caught it in the air!
Another cool fact about jumping spiders is that they have different personalities between individuals, they are not all the same and they don't all think the same. There's definitely more going on in their little brains than we give them credit for.
There seem to be two main types: aggressive, and passive. the main distinction is how they respond to being prodded by a little stick. If they lunge and attack the stick, they're aggressive, and if they avoid it, they're passive. Some spiders have a "breaking point" and avoid until they get a bit too angry and then become aggressive for a minute, usually going back to avoiding behaviors. Some fully switch and don't stop attacking until its left alone. Some even investigate the stick, and then just kind of ignore it. They can be very curious, and like to figure out whats exactly going on around them.
They also exhibit differences in how they hunt, some are more active than others. Some seem to prefer to camp out and wait for pray to come to them, where others explicitly explore to seek it out. Of course if they get super hungry, they might explore regardless, or if they're about to starve they might conserve energy and camp regardless, but they do have obvious preferences and differences in personality. Its really cool, especially from such a small creature.
Wow.
If you slow this down to 0.05x speed and ffwd to 18.10 seconds in, you can watch the spider jump at the fly in exactly two frames - but the frame before the spider jumps the fly moves as if to fly away, and a few frames before that if you zoom in real close you can watch the spider anchor his legs to check that everything is working before making the actual leap!
Great footage.
Song name?
dark tv show sound track
they literally teleport
The suspense was very intense
I wonder what the spider whispers to the dying fly…
Spiders legs are hydraulic, so it explains the speed. Its also why they recoil on death.
I hate u both
Fly has 5 eyes and panoramic vision. Official ruling: suicide
Here, take my traumatised upvote.
He got that fly under control
I had no idea jumping spiders laid a safety line. That's awesome
He's got that Peter tingle
Just like a cat
awww Lucas found a new friend
That fly was on Ctrl, but not in Ctrl.
Lucas!
MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!
And that is why jumping spiders are bro's.
Cat behaviour right there
"I... I could tell he was interrupting your work... I got him for you! Here... I hope he's tasty!" - Smol Jumpy Bro
Did it pounce right after the fly took off? Or did the fly try to escape after the spider pounced?
Way to destroy your cute image, jumping spider!
Love these little jumpers - I let them prowl the house and occasional feed them fruit flies if I manage to kill any
New Zealand has an estimated 150 different jumping spiders but we've only identified about 10% so far.
One of the coolest bugs out there.
Shh, shh, shhhh... It’s gonna be okay. just go to sleep
Why are they so cute tho
Look at em tucking in those little back legs in preparation
Spidey sense?
They're literally just tiny cats😭😭😭
If you clean your keyboard, you won’t get flys or spiders on it.
I am naming him…Bernie. He’s named. You have to keep him.
All this on your laptop, nice.
idk bro was moving pretty slow
The spider seems to have everything under Ctrl.
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I have a friend who built a terrarium in her kitchen for one. She keeps the thing open so it can come and go as it likes and it gets all the flies too cause of the spot she put it. Happiest damn spider I've ever met
They are also one of the few spider species that have excellent eyesight.
Most other spiders are blind as a mole
There are a few other groups, wolf spiders, lynx spiders and ogre spiders to name a few.
That approach though. Solid snake eat your heart out
Amazing footage! Please clean your keyboard it's gross
That's a real buggy computer
Clllleeeasaannn yooooo grrreeaassyy ass keyboard!
Do you mean spider-cats?..
Dude’s laptop is an ecosystem
He turns back to the camera for a victory lap 😂
It looked at the camera like "did you get it bro?"
Yup, there isn’t a single frame between him being fully planted in the laptop and him holding the fly. That’s pretty quick.
AWWWW!!! What good little guy! Taking out one of those little flying menaces.
Who's a good little pest control boy? Spidey's a good wittle boy! Yes he is!
I had to go frame by frame to see the jump, geez
that fly is a dumbass
thats like a dude with a knife out slowly approaching me and i decide this is a good time to use some hand sanitiser
I love jumping spiders, but I’m glad they aren’t much bigger than they are.