Critters of the Week

Where Spotted: Westover Hills
Common Name: Magnolia Green Jumping Spider
Scientific Name: Lyssomanes viridis
Length: Female  up to 0.3 inches (0.8 cm)- Male specimen up to 0.25 inches (0.6 cm)

Quick Facts

• As any jumping spider, the magnolia green jumper does not spin a web. While it does have the ability to produce silk it only uses this to produce safety lines during very audacious jumps to prevent a deep fall. Since the magnolia green jumper isn’t able to jump as far and high as some of its close relatives, it hardly ever uses this ability.
• Magnolia green jumping spiders hardly bite any humans or pets. They are a very fast and shy species and generally rather escape then attack. In the rare cases that they bite a human or a larger pet, it is generally less severe than a bee sting and causes some local swelling at worst.
• When males encounter each other, they will wave their forelegs and often approach one another until one of them retreats, with a physical fight resulting if neither retreats.
• L. viridis subsists primarily on other species inhabiting plants, including mites, aphids, ants, and occasionally other spiders.
• L. viridis is similar to most other salticids in having highly complex eyes and well-developed vision that is amongst the most acute of all arthropods, as well as complex visual cognition behaviors; the anterior median eyes have the telephoto quality for which jumping spiders are known, but also share features with the eyes of species that evolved earlier than salticids.

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Color: Brown / Orange
ID: 47855995

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