2007-04-23 20:48:16 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Yes... i believe that they can all jump. Tarantulas can even jump about 6 feet straight up in the air. By the way... I think i'm creeping myself out just thinking about it!
2007-04-23 20:57:09 · answer #1 · answered by Princess Leia 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, some can! I think between 10 and 15% of all species of spiders can jump.
2007-04-24 07:37:59 · answer #2 · answered by mfc_rule 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and some can even glide!
The jumping spiders (family Salticidae) contains more than 500 described genera and over 5,000 species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species.[1] Jumping spiders have good vision and use it for hunting and navigating. They are capable of jumping from place to place, secured by a silk tether. Both their book lungs and the tracheal system are well-developed, as they depend on both systems (bimodal breathing).
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Jumping spiders capture their prey by jumping on it from several inches away, and they may jump from twig to twig or leaf to leaf. They can jump thirty times their body length. They can carry out complex maneuvers such as detours around obstacles in order to reach their prey. Their eyesight is much better than that of other spiders and most, if not all, insects. Most other spiders will only eat prey that they have captured live because they are unable to see dead prey (some long-legged sac spiders and anyphaenid sac spiders are exceptions as they recognize insect eggs as food) but jumping spiders will eat flies that have been killed for them. One jumping spider (Evarcha culicivora) is even known to only capture mosquitos full of blood, using their eyesight and smell.
At least one species of jumping spiders, known as the Gliding Spider (Maratus volans) from Australia, has an abdomen with two wing-like flaps that can be tucked underneath it when not in use. When the spider is leaping, it can use its flaps to extend the jump and glide short distances through the air.
in the UK, you will often see small black and white zigzag patterned spiders that will jump if you try to catch them.
2007-04-24 04:18:05 · answer #3 · answered by homemanager22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally no, but there is a type of spider called a Jumping Spider. They're not native to England though and they only jump a few millimetres high.
2007-04-24 03:56:52 · answer #4 · answered by salvationcity 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are some spiders that jump, but I have never seen any in the UK, I live abroad and there are these small spiders when you go near them they do little jumps, but they don't bite.
2007-04-24 03:52:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
like cutie said: The jumping spider.
2007-04-24 07:53:10 · answer #6 · answered by Hold_your_color 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes one species of spider ( cant remember its name) is know to jump in order to flee from predators
lol actually i think its known as the jumping spider
2007-04-24 03:51:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes they can i have heard of jumping spiders
2007-04-24 03:51:45 · answer #8 · answered by cinu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they sure can, the best jumper of all is the bird catching spider in Africa , and the fastest, it sees a bird bounces up and down like its revving up, the body that is, then bang its off like a rocket , it actually bombs the bird with poison leaping over the top of it , so it covers a good five feet in the air at about a foot of the ground
2007-04-24 04:00:02 · answer #9 · answered by ufo18 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes they can.Though some jump further then others.
2007-04-24 03:53:21 · answer #10 · answered by ddstantlerstill 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋