Jumping Spider (ID?) and egg sac questions

[BlackCat]

I caught this girl about a month ago or more and today I saw her build a thick retreat and she made an egg sac against the side wall (she appears to still be in the process of wrapping it up too). I had a wolf spider make a sac in teh past but I let the mother keep and carry her sac, and eventually the babies climbed on her back and it was really a beautiful thing to see IMO, but I know it doesn't work like that with pretty much any other spider lol.

I searched the forums and didn't see anything that fit the bill for my questions but I do want to keep her offspring so basically...

1) Should I or should I not pull the sac? (I'm not too sure how it works with these spiders lol)

1a)If I should pull the sac, how many days until I should pull it?

2)What kind of care should the spiderlings receive and at what point should they be separated?

Any additional info would be awesome as well.

I'm not sure what species she is, most of them I see around here are the Phidippus audax, she's the first I've seen with this color and pattern around here and I think she is absolutely beautiful. Anyone know what species she is?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Crysta]

if shes a wild spider let momma take her course. I've found jumpers with eggs with legs and some others 1st instars, that they where still with.
She is such a cutie btw!
But on feeding the babies?
No idea... lol

 

[TheTyro]

About how big is she? I know how to feed Phidippus jumper offspring but I imagine with anything smaller than them it could be difficult. Even 1st instars are scared of fruit flies in the beginning. I'd try culturing springtails for smaller jumper babies like what you may have soon. But springtails aren't the greatest food for long term...so i'm not sure. And I'd just let her stay with the sac.

I will try and find out what she is soon, I am trying to learn more about the other jumper species.

 

[ZergFront]

Platycryptus undatus I think. I had a female I got as a freebie but she passed of old age.

Does she climb plastic ok? Mine never was good with plastic unless she put down webbing.

 

[BlackCat]

if shes a wild spider let momma take her course. I've found jumpers with eggs with legs and some others 1st instars, that they where still with.
She is such a cutie btw!
But on feeding the babies?
No idea... lol

Cool, reading on some more it looks like jumping spiders can do well communally even so maybe the babies could stay together for some time. I just hope they won't be small enough to fit through the ventilation holes in mom's house lol.

About how big is she? I know how to feed Phidippus jumper offspring but I imagine with anything smaller than them it could be difficult. Even 1st instars are scared of fruit flies in the beginning. I'd try culturing springtails for smaller jumper babies like what you may have soon. But springtails aren't the greatest food for long term...so i'm not sure. And I'd just let her stay with the sac.

I will try and find out what she is soon, I am trying to learn more about the other jumper species.

She is probably about .5". I should be able to come by some springtails, I have plenty of fruit flies but if they are afraid of those I don't want to stress them out or anything lol.

Platycryptus undatus I think. I had a female I got as a freebie but she passed of old age.

Does she climb plastic ok? Mine never was good with plastic unless she put down webbing.

Looking at pics on Google, that seems about right, the size matches up and everything too. She did like to stay low on the plastic at first but climbs pretty well now that she's webbed it up on the sides.


Thanks guys!

 

[ZergFront]

Cool, reading on some more it looks like jumping spiders can do well communally even so maybe the babies could stay together for some time. I just hope they won't be small enough to fit through the ventilation holes in mom's house lol.

Panty hose stops lots of true spider babies from escaping and it's breathable.

 

[BlackCat]

Awesome, thanks, hadn't thought of that