There are about 5,000 species of jumping spiders around the world. Jumping spiders have very good eyesight, owing to their eight eyes, allowing them to sense movement from any direction and avoid predators. These spiders have a poisonous bite, but it is lethal only to small insects. Instead of waiting in a web, jumping spiders go out to catch their food, which includes insects such as crickets. They jump at their prey, spinning a safety rope of silk just in case they miss. Jumping spiders can jump 40 times their own length. They would be like a human jumping the length of three tennis courts.

Jumping spiders can actually throw a web from their abdomen into the air and drift off into the air and travel for hundreds and thousands of miles.