 A test in 2001 showed that four jumping species take nectar, either by sucking it from the surface of flowers or biting the flowers with their fangs.The spiders fed in cycles of two to four minutes, then groomed, especially their chelicerae, before another cycle.A more formal part of the test showed that 90 juvenile jumping spiders, including "P. labiata", generally prefer to suck from blotting soaked with a 30% solution of sugar in water rather than paper soaked with pure water.