Jumping Spiders of the Anacostia River Watershed

If you could call a spider cute, it would be a salticid spider aka jumping spider (Salticidae Family). They are, without a doubt, one of the most fascinating invertebrates in our region and the world. And they live pretty close to us!

Edited by Jorge Arturo Bogantes Montero, and Anacostia Watershed Society, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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