“Invasive Asian jumping worms got their name because of the way they thrash around,” Mac Callaham, a Forest Service researcher from the US Department of Agriculture, wrote on the website in 2022.

Jumping spiders such as Evarcha arcuata, the species featured in this study, found throughout Eurasia, are the oddballs of the arachnid class in that they’re so visual.

Since jumping worms and their cocoons are sensitive to high temperatures, people can also heat soil to 104 degrees or above for more than three days. That will, however, kill everything else ...