I took this picture at my dad's of a Jumping Spider eating a hornet it caught.
The jumping spider family (Salticidae) contains 5,000 species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species.
Jumping spiders are generally recognized by their eye pattern. They typically have eight eyes arranged in three or four rows. If you look close enough you can see at least 4.
Jumping spiders capture their prey by jumping on it from several inches away, and they may jump from twig to twig or leaf to leaf. They can jump many times their body length.
Their eyesight is much better than that of other spiders and most, if not all, insects. Most other spiders will only eat prey that they have captured live because they are unable to see dead prey (with some exceptions) but jumping spiders will eat flies that have been killed for them.
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