Little is known about the night-time habits of tiny creatures all around us. Take the jumping spider — it mysteriously can spend much of the night suspended in mid-air, hanging by a thread.

Jumping spiders like Maratus vespa mimic wasps during courtship. Even AI mistook them for wasps over 20% of the time.

Now she sells jumping spiders and struggles to respond to all the prospective spider owners who flood her inbox. Many of her customers are first-time spider owners, she said. “I’ve converted ...

Researchers used computer vision techniques and machine learning and neural network algorithms to see if artificial intelligence properly classified images properly as spiders, wasps, praying mantises ...

With more than 6,500 species found worldwide, jumping spiders are voracious arachnids that feed on just about any invertebrate they come across. They also possess diverse visual capabilities.

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Many lovers of spiders profess a lifelong fascination with all things creepy crawly. Heather Bruen’s affinity for spiders was borne out of necessity. At first she couldn ...

The team filmed jumping spiders overnight and observed behaviors that mirror REM sleep in other species. "All the legs would curl into the body and they would twitch," Roessler said. "We would see ...

For these jumping spiders, that restriction doesn't apply. So, they shut the lab lights off, let the spiders enter their sleep-like state, and then tracked any movement using an infrared camera.

Jumping spiders are highly visual creatures with a set of eight eyes that can even pick up color. And unlike most other land-dwelling arthropods, they have muscles that can control and move their ...

Jumping spiders are all the rage among entomologists, but an entire genus living in New Zealand's South Island rocky alpine regions, comprising 12 different species, has managed to evade human ...

Researchers found jumping spiders, known for their acrobatic hunting, exhibiting signs of R.E.M. sleep, but it is unknown whether they dream, or even sleep.