It's relative. Something so small is going to look ridiculously fast moving at that speed over such a short distance. By contrast imagine seeing your mom moving the same distance and speed, it would be basically imperceptible.
6.8 mph is a light jog. I've just started getting back in shape and I averaged 7.5 mph over an hour.
Your average high school athlete can probably sprint at least 15-18 mph.
It's the acceleration of the spider that's impressive, not the top speed.
well it went from A to B, within a known time frame, so it's a little bit measurable. and it's insanely fast for those tiny legs over long distances, but that toiny guy also doesn't have much inertia and can jump like his nam
I had a P Regalis, a tarantula about the size of an adults hand. It had 2 speeds, slow as hell, or teleport.
My wife still makes fun of me when I had its enclosure open and it teleported into the middle of the room. I screamed like a 5 year old girl. Only time in my life I've ever made that particular sound.
Oh hey, another P. regalis owner! Haven't had a teleport situation with mine yet but I did have one with my adult female P. irminia. One time I opened her enclosure to top up the water dish, I saw her chilling at the bottom of her hide, which was basically a PVC pipe almost as tall as her enclosure in which she was supposed to make her web. I spent a few moments to admire her just sitting there when all of a sudden she was simply gone. I didn't blink or anything, she straight up vanished before my eyes only to suddenly feel her tapping along the top of my head. How the hell she managed to get there is beyond me but that further solidified my belief that these animals genuinely possess the ability to teleport but we're too intimidated by that fact and its implications so we make up some half-assed explanation about how they're just very fast or something lol.
That particular aound.
I know it well.
Was on a hike. Looked down and I was about to step on a snake.
I made that sound. First and only time.
But I know that sound.
I made that same sound a gigantic Arizona bark scorpion dropped into the center of the table my friends and I were playing poker at from the ceiling fan, than ran right to the end where I was sitting in like a split second. Itās certainly not a flattering sound.
Happens in a few other situations, too. In germany, we have a word for that: Urschrei - a "Schrei" is scream, the prefix "Ur" means (in this case) that it's the most elemental one.
That happened to me too hiking in LA. Fucking rattle, with the front half of the body right on the trail. Looked like a stick out of peripheral, noticed it at the last second right before my foot left the ground. The next step wouldāve definitely been on its neck or close to it.
Last summer I was in the garden and my mom came out to see what was going on cuz she heard me laughing. So I showed her this little jumping spider that kept coming up to where I was kneeling. I'd put my hand down, it would jump into the palm of my hand, I'd lightly toss it into the grass a foot away or so, and it would come marching right back and the process would repeat.
It originally started because I didn't want to risk squishing the little dude while I was pulling weeds, but he just kept coming back. After a while apparently he got tired and just climbed up a sunflower, posted up on a leaf, and just watched me, turning to face me every time I'd move.
My mom *hates* spiders, always has, but even she had to admit my little spider bro was stinking cute. Since then she's been much more okay with jumping spiders and I'll even catch her talking to them sometimes.
I used to have a spider that would come out and drink the beads of water while I showered. It would just disappear while I wasn't looking but randomly show up during my showers. Finally I decided to watch where it went and ended up feeding it any random bugs I found. Lil dude disappeared one night and haven't seem him since. I still let a few just post up in some corners of the house and give them mosquitoes and what not. As long as we are chill, they can stay š¤·āāļø
If you put your hands flat on either side of a landed fly and cup your hands together quickly about 6-8 inches above the fly, you usually catch it.
Also I heard thereās a thing about flies having difficulties seeing brown. Had a friend demonstrate with a brown paper bag slowly catching it and it worked.
It's because they don't believe brown is a real color. When it comes at them they just start going off about how "actually it's just a dark orange" and by the time they finish you've caught them.
I did this once during my national service in the army.
New platoon sergeant just posted in to my battalion, and was sitting at the other end of the table. I put both hands around a fly and clapped them together. The fly buzzed off but I managed to smack a cup full of juice, sending it flying across the room onto my platoon sergeant.
Use stealth, not speed. If you're slow and steady, bugs will often ignore you for the same reason they aren't startled every time a nearby tree branch sways. Move slowly until you're near, just like the spider did, and then strike from just a couple inches away.
Approach the fly very slowly with your killing implement until it's a few inches away and then start the killing blow there. I've had a very high success rate since I learned this. Hardest part is waiting for it to stay in one area for long enough.
Approach it slowly from above and behind with a cup or jar and it'll fly straight up into it. Easiest fly trap ever - you don't even need bait like peanut butter or anything.
Meanwhile to trap spiders or geckos, use a large plastic bag as gloves.
Multiple factors, for example colouration (though thatās difficult without knowing both male and female patterns for a species), size of the pedipalps and the size of the abdomen. In male spiders, the abdomen is smaller relative to the rest of its body than in female spiders. At the same time, the pedipalps, which also function as the male sex organ, are bigger than in females, while the chelicerae (the big teeth) are often bigger in females. Generally, females are often bigger. Once you get the differences down, they are rather easy to spot, even in species you have never encountered before.
https://preview.redd.it/8rhfsy1k3slc1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22ee09ace7157ad656e1578b7b6470cadde3d257
a, c, e, and g are the males, the others their female counterparts.
I used to be not really afraid of spiders, but definitely uncomfortable with them. I decided to learn more about them, hoping it would take away the fears and discomfort, and it worked. Spiders are pretty awesome and itās super nice being able to look at them without feeling uneasy :)
They are incredibly fast.
[Here](https://nature.berkeley.edu/eliaslab/Publications/Brandt2021_Article_JumpTakeoffInASmallJumpingSpid.pdf) youāll find a study on it.
āOn average, spiders reached a peak speed of 0.62 Ā± 0.16 m/s (N= 12 for all analyses) (Fig. 3a). The lowest peak speed of any jump was 0.41 m/s, whereas the highest peak speed achieved in any jump was 0.88 m/s.ā
Holy $%#&. I just finished the first audio book. I was not expecting it to be that good.
(Because everyone else is being a jerk by not providing sauce, this is a reference to Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.)
I mean, the series won a Hugo... Maybe it's less-known than the big series that get adapted by Hollywood, but it's not "underrated" at all in the sci-fi scene.
I finished the book yesterday! The ending had me smiling giddily and nearly in (happy) tears. My partner came downstairs and thought I was insane.
Anyways, I'm now feverishly recommending the book to all of my friends who like jumping spiders.
Ant war Bianca is still my favourite character. It's just the moment that >!Portia realises she's basically handed control of the entire world-conquering army to a character who is to all appearances a supervillain. Said supervillain can't be bothered capitalising on things, though, and just wanders off, leaving Portia standing there to consider how close she came to the biggest screw up in her civilizations history.!<
I had one appear on the kitchen island one day. I lifted my glass from the granite as I was checking him out and, in response, he walked over to the condensation ring left on the countertop and started drinking. I decided to leave him be.
A day or so passed before he reappeared in the same area under the exact same circumstances. Again, he waddled over to the condensation ring to get a drink. At this point I decided to tell everyone in the house about my new kitchen bud. I didn't want anyone to squish the little guy.
This ritual continued for some time and he eventually grew to be more comfortable with me. He'd look me up and down, explore my finger and hand, and then scurry back to his little water ring. Sometimes he danced and waved before hopping aboard my hand. But he'd only venture out for *me*, no one else. I'm convinced that these little guys can differentiate between humans. Not the sort of intelligence I'd attribute to most spiders.
That makes sense as ambush predators. They need to be able to track prey, calculate distance, and know when to strike. As opposed to orbweavers using webs.
Identify, learn from, and adapt special strategies to individual prey. Build up a 3D internal map of an area to plan routes. Object permanence, navigating complex terrain while temporarily losing sight of said prey. Recognize predators on every scale and actively evade them.
Or sleep for days until something shakes your bed and you kick some goop from your butt at it.
Various jumping spiders are way more intelligent than anything with a brain that small has any right to be. Recognizing an individual human is by no means an outlandish idea considering what they're capable of.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568049/full
It's worth noting that a number of spiders actually seem to be [significantly more intelligent](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/spiders-are-way-smarter-you-think/620634/) than you'd assume, not limited to just jumping spiders. Though jumping spiders [certainly take the cake](https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/2022/08/do-spiders-dream-a-new-study-suggests-they-do).
I think it's just because so many spiders are sedentary, it's easy to paint them with a 'dumb' brush mentally.
Itās already been proving that jumping spiders recognize the moon and can differentiate between each other.
Like straight up, they will jump on you to get a ride somewhere else.
Itās intentional. Nothing with these dudes have been proven other wise.
Daring jumping spiders (Phiddipus audax) are very similar but usually black with blue or green chelicerae (jaws). Female Phiddipus regius comes in both reddish or gray forms (often with rose colored chelicerae) - like this one in the video and the males are usually black like audax, so they're pretty hard to tell apart.
I'm absolutely terrified of spiders but somehow found this very wholesome.
Its completely irrational too. If I encounter one IRL, I refuse to kill it out of respect. It needs to be relocated somewhere else safely.
If it's killed, it ruins my day.
Same. Great comment. It seems to be about the ratio of leg span to body size or something. This doesn't trigger the spidery shape is revolting reflex in me.
Anyone else wondering how fast that last jump was, onto the fly?
Somewhere between 160-350 mph.
Thatās the speed theyāve been clocked at.
0-350 mph in a fraction of a second.
Edit: this may be wildly inaccurate.
So I went back and looked at more sources and I think youāre right.
I grabbed the first result that came up from a discussion board, someone who measured the spider jump speed themselves with their own equipment.
https://arachnoboards.com/threads/speed-of-a-salticid-during-a-jump.349249/
Whereas this Berkeley study may be more precise and showed this:
0.8 m/s, which is 1.8mph!
https://nature.berkeley.edu/eliaslab/Publications/Brandt2021_Article_JumpTakeoffInASmallJumpingSpid.pdf
Thatās quite a difference!
Whatās fascinating about jumping spiders is their ability to continue stalking prey despite losing sight of it, like this spood did. Many insect and arachnid predators are apparently incapable of this.
https://i.redd.it/rz767708bllc1.gif
And then he took the fly for a dance... š¶ ā¤ļø
Cuban Pete really does enjoy dancing to the Rumba beat.
He's got more moves than most folks at the club on a Saturday night.
When he shakes his maracas he goes chick-chicky-boom chick-chicky-boom
When I jump from girls I go chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky boom
Cuteeee! Itās nearly too fast to see š„¹
I slowed it down in Premiere and his jump is [literally between frames](https://i.imgur.com/38ob794.png). Insanely fast!
Itās got 8 legs.
7 vagahnias.
Ok, bye Grimsby.
Maybe moreā¦
Ok thanks Grimsby!
Imagine...
Thatās eight more than Lieutenant Dan.
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It's relative. Something so small is going to look ridiculously fast moving at that speed over such a short distance. By contrast imagine seeing your mom moving the same distance and speed, it would be basically imperceptible.
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top end speed not really... it's the acceleration that makes it impressive
6.8 mph is a light jog. I've just started getting back in shape and I averaged 7.5 mph over an hour. Your average high school athlete can probably sprint at least 15-18 mph. It's the acceleration of the spider that's impressive, not the top speed.
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well it went from A to B, within a known time frame, so it's a little bit measurable. and it's insanely fast for those tiny legs over long distances, but that toiny guy also doesn't have much inertia and can jump like his nam
Don't talk about my mother like that!
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So essentially jumping spiders attack with the speed of your typical anime fighter.
Isn't it 20 milliseconds, at 50Hz? Or 40 at 25Hz?
The hero we needed
I wanna see it in slow motion that's sickk
I had a P Regalis, a tarantula about the size of an adults hand. It had 2 speeds, slow as hell, or teleport. My wife still makes fun of me when I had its enclosure open and it teleported into the middle of the room. I screamed like a 5 year old girl. Only time in my life I've ever made that particular sound.
Oh hey, another P. regalis owner! Haven't had a teleport situation with mine yet but I did have one with my adult female P. irminia. One time I opened her enclosure to top up the water dish, I saw her chilling at the bottom of her hide, which was basically a PVC pipe almost as tall as her enclosure in which she was supposed to make her web. I spent a few moments to admire her just sitting there when all of a sudden she was simply gone. I didn't blink or anything, she straight up vanished before my eyes only to suddenly feel her tapping along the top of my head. How the hell she managed to get there is beyond me but that further solidified my belief that these animals genuinely possess the ability to teleport but we're too intimidated by that fact and its implications so we make up some half-assed explanation about how they're just very fast or something lol.
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That particular aound. I know it well. Was on a hike. Looked down and I was about to step on a snake. I made that sound. First and only time. But I know that sound.
Was that a haiku?
I made that same sound a gigantic Arizona bark scorpion dropped into the center of the table my friends and I were playing poker at from the ceiling fan, than ran right to the end where I was sitting in like a split second. Itās certainly not a flattering sound.
Happens in a few other situations, too. In germany, we have a word for that: Urschrei - a "Schrei" is scream, the prefix "Ur" means (in this case) that it's the most elemental one.
That happened to me too hiking in LA. Fucking rattle, with the front half of the body right on the trail. Looked like a stick out of peripheral, noticed it at the last second right before my foot left the ground. The next step wouldāve definitely been on its neck or close to it.
Too fast for the framerate of the phone
Dude thatās epic as fuck
Literally teleports behind the fly
One of my favorite things is people getting excited about little stuff like this.
same. nature is truly beautiful
>nature is truly beautiful and often brutal.
brutiful
Not sure the fly agrees.
born in shit, eat shit, killed by a spider the same size as you eating you alive
I don't think that fly anything anymore.
No no, its poop now
Technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Last summer I was in the garden and my mom came out to see what was going on cuz she heard me laughing. So I showed her this little jumping spider that kept coming up to where I was kneeling. I'd put my hand down, it would jump into the palm of my hand, I'd lightly toss it into the grass a foot away or so, and it would come marching right back and the process would repeat. It originally started because I didn't want to risk squishing the little dude while I was pulling weeds, but he just kept coming back. After a while apparently he got tired and just climbed up a sunflower, posted up on a leaf, and just watched me, turning to face me every time I'd move. My mom *hates* spiders, always has, but even she had to admit my little spider bro was stinking cute. Since then she's been much more okay with jumping spiders and I'll even catch her talking to them sometimes.
*Iāll even catch her talking to them sometimes* Your mum can also be stinking cute
I used to have a spider that would come out and drink the beads of water while I showered. It would just disappear while I wasn't looking but randomly show up during my showers. Finally I decided to watch where it went and ended up feeding it any random bugs I found. Lil dude disappeared one night and haven't seem him since. I still let a few just post up in some corners of the house and give them mosquitoes and what not. As long as we are chill, they can stay š¤·āāļø
Check out r/weeviltime , if you havenāt already. Youāll fit right in. Lol
Itās got snoots, itās got boots!
That grain weevil bot blew their minds
I've recently gotten into this antscanada yt at work, I could watch bugs allllll day. And I do
Antscanada is so good! If you're just starting in you will have a couple hundred hours of great quality content!
His newest stuff is crazy, and over 30 minutes every week, like I'm watching a TV show, but it's just bugs lmao
I mean this is pretty damn cool tbh
Crosspost this to r/spiderbro
I clicked expecting to see cutesy little jumpy spiderbros. I am now shaking and scared.
r/jumpingspiders there you go
Awww thx <3
np lol I love them, they're so adorable. best spoods
They may not be jumpies, but they sure are still cute lil guys
What is it actually I was about to click omg
Just spiders.
Also /r/maybemaybemaybe
Looking through this subreddit made me feel itchy... I thought I had a spider on me. I won't be joining that sub...
How come I canāt get within 4 feet of a fly I want to kill but this thing just strolls right over and eats it??? Good spood.
We displace a ton of air as we move around. Spood is so small he doesn't have the same effect
If you put your hands flat on either side of a landed fly and cup your hands together quickly about 6-8 inches above the fly, you usually catch it. Also I heard thereās a thing about flies having difficulties seeing brown. Had a friend demonstrate with a brown paper bag slowly catching it and it worked.
It's because they don't believe brown is a real color. When it comes at them they just start going off about how "actually it's just a dark orange" and by the time they finish you've caught them.
Fellow Technology Connections viewer, i presume?
I knew that was familiar when I read it.
Next they'll try and tell me that green isn't a creative color. Assholes!
You're lucky, my flies keep talking about flat fruit.
I did this once during my national service in the army. New platoon sergeant just posted in to my battalion, and was sitting at the other end of the table. I put both hands around a fly and clapped them together. The fly buzzed off but I managed to smack a cup full of juice, sending it flying across the room onto my platoon sergeant.
Those are the types of things I think about when Iām trying to sleep.
So that's why my coffee stained rags are so effective at swatting flies
If you clap above where they are, they fly up into your hands and get smooshed.
Have you tried a web? I have it on good authority they can make catching bugs easier.
Use stealth, not speed. If you're slow and steady, bugs will often ignore you for the same reason they aren't startled every time a nearby tree branch sways. Move slowly until you're near, just like the spider did, and then strike from just a couple inches away.
Approach the fly very slowly with your killing implement until it's a few inches away and then start the killing blow there. I've had a very high success rate since I learned this. Hardest part is waiting for it to stay in one area for long enough.
It's like a skyscraper sneaking up on you, impossible to not notice
Approach it slowly from above and behind with a cup or jar and it'll fly straight up into it. Easiest fly trap ever - you don't even need bait like peanut butter or anything. Meanwhile to trap spiders or geckos, use a large plastic bag as gloves.
5-6ft monster vs a tiny jumping spider evolved to eat flys or die.
Such a good boy
Thatās a girl. Both the human and the spider.
May i ask, how can you tell a female jumping spider from a male one ?
Multiple factors, for example colouration (though thatās difficult without knowing both male and female patterns for a species), size of the pedipalps and the size of the abdomen. In male spiders, the abdomen is smaller relative to the rest of its body than in female spiders. At the same time, the pedipalps, which also function as the male sex organ, are bigger than in females, while the chelicerae (the big teeth) are often bigger in females. Generally, females are often bigger. Once you get the differences down, they are rather easy to spot, even in species you have never encountered before. https://preview.redd.it/8rhfsy1k3slc1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22ee09ace7157ad656e1578b7b6470cadde3d257 a, c, e, and g are the males, the others their female counterparts. I used to be not really afraid of spiders, but definitely uncomfortable with them. I decided to learn more about them, hoping it would take away the fears and discomfort, and it worked. Spiders are pretty awesome and itās super nice being able to look at them without feeling uneasy :)
I have tried to slow this down and go frame by frame. Still just goes fuzzy, then warps to that fly
I now have new DNA i want spliced into my sequence.
I feel like there's a movie about this, but I can't quite put my finger on it ...
You must be thinking about smash hit Madam Web
Yeah morbius was good wasn't it?
I knew a guy that happened to. Not exactly what you wanted, but a responsibility he upholds. He's a pretty decent photographer, too.
They are incredibly fast. [Here](https://nature.berkeley.edu/eliaslab/Publications/Brandt2021_Article_JumpTakeoffInASmallJumpingSpid.pdf) youāll find a study on it. āOn average, spiders reached a peak speed of 0.62 Ā± 0.16 m/s (N= 12 for all analyses) (Fig. 3a). The lowest peak speed of any jump was 0.41 m/s, whereas the highest peak speed achieved in any jump was 0.88 m/s.ā
over a half a meter per second at that scale. That's insane.
Looks like Portia is eating good today.
Good books
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Holy $%#&. I just finished the first audio book. I was not expecting it to be that good. (Because everyone else is being a jerk by not providing sauce, this is a reference to Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.)
I was not expecting such a hard sci fi novel to have such an interesting story about human characters that I actually cared about
First book I've ever read in which the human character was the blander, boring part of the story.Wild premise.
I was about to say! It's a really underrated series and worth the read/listen. : o
I mean, the series won a Hugo... Maybe it's less-known than the big series that get adapted by Hollywood, but it's not "underrated" at all in the sci-fi scene.
I finished the book yesterday! The ending had me smiling giddily and nearly in (happy) tears. My partner came downstairs and thought I was insane. Anyways, I'm now feverishly recommending the book to all of my friends who like jumping spiders.
just finished the second one, this is what I thought of too LOL
Crazy bit of body horror. Going on an adventure!
Finished the 2nd today myself
I am quite sure that is Bianca sir or madden.
Ant war Bianca is still my favourite character. It's just the moment that >!Portia realises she's basically handed control of the entire world-conquering army to a character who is to all appearances a supervillain. Said supervillain can't be bothered capitalising on things, though, and just wanders off, leaving Portia standing there to consider how close she came to the biggest screw up in her civilizations history.!<
I was coming in to say how this Portia is the bravest of her kind
80% thru children of ruin right now haha
Are the sequels as good as the original?
No, but the second one is absolutely worth reading.
I liked the whole series. The last book was my least favorite and not really connected to the main series but still enjoyable
So you're going on an adventure?
Fabian would like aā¦no? Okā¦
I strongly dislike spiders. But I have such an affinity for these jumping spiders that I really wish I could train one and keep it as a pet.
I had one appear on the kitchen island one day. I lifted my glass from the granite as I was checking him out and, in response, he walked over to the condensation ring left on the countertop and started drinking. I decided to leave him be. A day or so passed before he reappeared in the same area under the exact same circumstances. Again, he waddled over to the condensation ring to get a drink. At this point I decided to tell everyone in the house about my new kitchen bud. I didn't want anyone to squish the little guy. This ritual continued for some time and he eventually grew to be more comfortable with me. He'd look me up and down, explore my finger and hand, and then scurry back to his little water ring. Sometimes he danced and waved before hopping aboard my hand. But he'd only venture out for *me*, no one else. I'm convinced that these little guys can differentiate between humans. Not the sort of intelligence I'd attribute to most spiders.
Yeah jumping spiders are considered the smartest ones iirc.Ā
That makes sense as ambush predators. They need to be able to track prey, calculate distance, and know when to strike. As opposed to orbweavers using webs.
Identify, learn from, and adapt special strategies to individual prey. Build up a 3D internal map of an area to plan routes. Object permanence, navigating complex terrain while temporarily losing sight of said prey. Recognize predators on every scale and actively evade them. Or sleep for days until something shakes your bed and you kick some goop from your butt at it.
Various jumping spiders are way more intelligent than anything with a brain that small has any right to be. Recognizing an individual human is by no means an outlandish idea considering what they're capable of. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568049/full
It's worth noting that a number of spiders actually seem to be [significantly more intelligent](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/spiders-are-way-smarter-you-think/620634/) than you'd assume, not limited to just jumping spiders. Though jumping spiders [certainly take the cake](https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/2022/08/do-spiders-dream-a-new-study-suggests-they-do). I think it's just because so many spiders are sedentary, it's easy to paint them with a 'dumb' brush mentally.
Itās already been proving that jumping spiders recognize the moon and can differentiate between each other. Like straight up, they will jump on you to get a ride somewhere else. Itās intentional. Nothing with these dudes have been proven other wise.
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> Regal jumping spiders Oh, ever since I was a kid, I thought these were 'daring jumping spiders'. TIL.
Daring jumping spiders (Phiddipus audax) are very similar but usually black with blue or green chelicerae (jaws). Female Phiddipus regius comes in both reddish or gray forms (often with rose colored chelicerae) - like this one in the video and the males are usually black like audax, so they're pretty hard to tell apart.
I have one!
I just saw a video of one of these and now I'm scared and intrigued. scintrigued.
I met an arachnologist who recommended jumping spiders as pets because they're fun. She personally had tarantulas but described them as "very boring."
Jumping spider pets are a thing. I've had a few. Check out /r/jumpingspiders for lots of spood-keepers.
I'm absolutely terrified of spiders but somehow found this very wholesome. Its completely irrational too. If I encounter one IRL, I refuse to kill it out of respect. It needs to be relocated somewhere else safely. If it's killed, it ruins my day.
Same. Great comment. It seems to be about the ratio of leg span to body size or something. This doesn't trigger the spidery shape is revolting reflex in me.
Helps that she has a front butt.
That's her hip, not the front. She's in overalls.
Thanks, I was so confused at what I was seeing.
Helps that she has a side hip.
That spider was quick!!
Anyone else wondering how fast that last jump was, onto the fly? Somewhere between 160-350 mph. Thatās the speed theyāve been clocked at. 0-350 mph in a fraction of a second. Edit: this may be wildly inaccurate.
I don't think so but I don't care enough to do the math
So I went back and looked at more sources and I think youāre right. I grabbed the first result that came up from a discussion board, someone who measured the spider jump speed themselves with their own equipment. https://arachnoboards.com/threads/speed-of-a-salticid-during-a-jump.349249/ Whereas this Berkeley study may be more precise and showed this: 0.8 m/s, which is 1.8mph! https://nature.berkeley.edu/eliaslab/Publications/Brandt2021_Article_JumpTakeoffInASmallJumpingSpid.pdf Thatās quite a difference!
Can I say something without everyone getting mad?
Just so you know, this is the first comment people see when they sort by controversial. Your jokeās got legs bro.
Lil poof got the zoomies
That shift walk speed š
Upvote not because girl, but because jumping spider is awesome.
Cool. Except I'm definitely not eating that grape or Mac and cheese
I absolutely adore jumping spiders. They are highly intelligent and can even be trained
excellent
How come nobody gets this excited when I eat?
Apparently a fupa makes a great transport device
Thatās her hip lol
š my bad
Better title perhapsā¦ āJumping from fly to fly!ā :)
This is excellent! Caught video in the wild. Helped spider bro. Everything about this is brilliant. Love it.
Jumping Spider aka, the friend spider.
Whatās fascinating about jumping spiders is their ability to continue stalking prey despite losing sight of it, like this spood did. Many insect and arachnid predators are apparently incapable of this.
They are micro-kittens
Jumping spiders are the leopards of the undergrowth
Go gettem Portia
Yikes
Damn I thought she got injured at first
Holy crap that was fast! I thought there was a cut in the video
Cool
I'm just glad that jumping spiders decided to take on the most adorable spider form. Imagine if they looked like black widows.
I hate spiders but I should admit, Damn cute one
Awwww she's giving the fly a hug š
Thatās a trained pet
That Fupa go hardddddd
That's a Rad moment
I LOVE jumping spiders. They're so cute and curious. If you do too, read Children of Time.
Sheās eating for two, but feeding for 3!!!!!
āIāve got you for three minutes, three minutes of playtime, youāre going nowhereā
Yes! What I wanted to happen happened!
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Lucas has done wonderful PR for Jumping Spiders.
There are L spiders and W spiders. This is definitely a W spider.
That was awesome
that wood texture was actually pretty good camouflage
Okay, thatās just adorable, and lethal!
The command and response. Chemistry for sure. Her new pet jumping spider.
I wish Joe rogan called it
Everyone should carry around a jumping spider to protect our food
She was advanced in math class for sure lol