This adult female Phidippus princeps (jumping spider, Salticidae) from Greenville County, South Carolina, USA, was filmed after it captured a wolf spider (Lycosidae) and moved to the top of a branch to feed on it. At the beginning of this clip the jumping spider was just beginning to chew or macerate the legs of the wolf spider, and the cephalothorax or prosoma of the wolf spider was still relatively intact. Phidippus jumping spiders are voracious predators on many kinds of spiders, as well as insects. They may also feed on flower nectar or pollen, as has been demonstrated in other jumping spiders.
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