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| | Jumping spider -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | When a jumping spider is moving from place to place, and especially just before it jumps from one place to another, it tethers a filament of (A fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae) silk to whatever it is standing on. |
 | | Almost all spiders (except uloborid spiders) have venom, but the (Toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)) venom of most spiders is not worse than the venom of (Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species) bees. |
 | | Jumping spiders live in a variety of habitats, including mountains (one species is reported to have been the spider collected at the highest elevation on the slopes of Mt. Everest), tropical forests, deserts, temperate forests, scrub lands, and even in the intertidal zone (in Malaysia). |
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