Jumping Spider finds a quiet place to eat its lunch (a Sharpshooter) @StuffISawOutside

Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

A Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax) tries to hide with a captured Glassy-winged Sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) while perched on a Woolly Rosemallow (Hibiscus lasiocarpos) stem at Sheldon Lake Sate Park, in Houston, TX, USA.

I think it's a little ironic that the *Bold* Jumping Spider is hiding like Sharpshooters tend to do. It's almost a case of "you are what you eat".

Jumping Spider finds a quiet place to eat its lunch (a Sharpshooter)

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