Stats

Lifespan

1-2 years

Size

Small

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Terrestrial biomes

Range

Worldwide

Movement

Hopping

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Venom

Status

Common

About

This spider lives on plants and walls across almost every habitat on Earth. It uses pressurized blood to launch itself up to fifty times its own body length.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg sac

   A silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   A spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
3. 3.
   subadult

   A near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown after its final molt.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae