CARDINAL JUMPING SPIDER (Phidippus cardinalis) ©Photos by shahan
Jumping spiders are generally diurnal, active hunters. Their well-developed internal hydraulic system extends their limbs by altering the pressure of body fluid (hemolymph) within them. This enables the spiders to jump without having large muscular legs like a grasshopper. Most jumping spiders can jump several times the length of their body. When a jumping spider is moving from place to place, and especially just before it jumps, it tethers a filament of silk (or dragline) to whatever it is standing on. Should it fall for one reason or another, it climbs back up the silk tether.
Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_spider
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Spider close-up: Adult Female Cardinal Jumping Spider (Phidippus cardinalis) (photo: Thomas Shahan)
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