Jumping spiders are one of the most common types of spiders. While there are thousands of species of jumping spiders, only 300 are native to the United States. Jumping spiders are not dangerous to ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

Spiders are not associated with sound perception because they do not possess eardrums. To sense movement, spiders use the tiny hairs on their legs to sense vibration (and spiders can ‘sense’ ...