Vampire spider

It is one of the only spiders known that chooses mosquitoes as its favourite food.

It likes the malaria mosquito best, so it helps protect people from a nasty illness.

It sleeps in a little silk tube nest made of rolled-up dead leaves, often on tree trunks or house walls.

Both boys and girls choose their partners and show off to each other, which is rare for jumping spiders.

To hunt it goes onto the walls inside houses where many mosquitoes live.