How to Use jumping spider in a Sentence

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  • With brains the size of a sesame seed, jumping spiders may seem like mental lightweights.
    National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2016
  • The jumping spider has a stripy pattern on its abdomen and large black eyes.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Viewed from behind, a fly with its wings stretched out looks like a jumping spider facing you with its front legs up.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2017
  • The researchers were studying a species of jumping spider, hoping to learn more about how these spiders cared for their young.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Adult jumping spiders are littler than a fingernail, but their vision is as clear as a small dog's.
    Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Critters like the jumping spider are very far from humans on the evolutionary tree.
    Maddie Burakoff, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Clearly, when faced with a jumping spider, wearing a coat of dead ants can mean the difference between life or death to an assassin bug.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010
  • Peacock spiders and other jumping spiders use internal hydraulic pumps rather than leg muscles to leap 30 times their body length.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Some species of jumping spider can see ultraviolet light and blue and green colors, Live Science's Stephanie Pappas reported in 2021.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Some newer species, such as certain ant-hunting specialists and the portia jumping spider (which will prey on fellow spiders by lowering itself from above), don’t use webs at all.
    Lindzi Wessel, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018
  • And yet, Chinese scientists have documented jumping spiders that provide their young with droplets of a nutrient-rich fluid from a furrow on the mother’s body.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Some dermatologists believe jumping spiders are the most common biting spider in the United States.
    Caroline Blackmon, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2018
  • Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Science made the discovery while following up on an observation about Toxeus magnus, a species of jumping spider that mimics ants.
    Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Most spiders, including black jumping spiders and the large argiopes, aren’t dangerous and eat pest insects, including grasshoppers, moths and caterpillars.
    Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Miniature Treadmills and a Light Show Studying a jumping spider’s image processing is not as straightforward as implanting electrodes in its brain, as scientists might do with a larger animal.
    Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 15 July 2021
  • With his son Chris, now 21, Knode set up a spooky, interactive Halloween experience across his front lawn, complete with strobe lights, jumping spiders, robotic characters and inflatables, skeletons, snakes, ghosts and ghouls.
    Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • See different species of colorful beetles, ants and an ant mound, a cicada, butterflies, a firefly, a stink bug, a ladybug, a peacock jumping spider, a dragonfly, a walking stick, a katydid, a caterpillar and a hissing cockroach.
    The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Students researched various spiders before settling on the daring jumping spider – formal name Phidippus audax.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 June 2021

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