Finding Phidippus Audax New York

[Backcountry critters]

Lol man I understand completely! It is like they look you in the eye. I like to play with my juvenile female P audax sometimes just by opening the top of her enclosure and looking at her, sometimes she sees me and rapidly vibrates her pedipalps while looking at me. I think this is because I have a beard and she interprets my hair as another big spider lmao and shes doing a threat gesture. She looks at me clearly while doing it, I can't think of any other explanation.


I could be totally wrong here keep in mind, but I feel like female jumpers are much more skittish and "jumpy" than males. I have a juvenile male also, and he is so much more chill compared to my juvenile female. He isn't even that active. Meanwhile, the female never stops moving until she sleeps at night, shes always on some kind of patrol. And she's so fast its crazy, she just "blips" from place to place.

That is a cool observation tho. The first orange morph female that is quite plump did not eat a fly as readily as the other female I had caught outside my house, she had ate the fly instantly and took another no problem. I could be way off but it seems each spider has its own personality. The one I caught outside my house I feel I saw before a couple weeks ago and seems more curious of me than scared like the other. Idk why but it sees me but she doesn't run away just kinda continues its wandering. I'll slowly see if I can hold her.

 

[Nicole C G]

Lol man I understand completely! It is like they look you in the eye. I like to play with my juvenile female P audax sometimes just by opening the top of her enclosure and looking at her, sometimes she sees me and rapidly vibrates her pedipalps while looking at me. I think this is because I have a beard and she interprets my hair as another big spider lmao and shes doing a threat gesture. She looks at me clearly while doing it, I can't think of any other explanation.


I could be totally wrong here keep in mind, but I feel like female jumpers are much more skittish and "jumpy" than males. I have a juvenile male also, and he is so much more chill compared to my juvenile female. He isn't even that active. Meanwhile, the female never stops moving until she sleeps at night, shes always on some kind of patrol. And she's so fast its crazy, she just "blips" from place to place.

A threat pose for Phidippus audax is extending the front legs and opening their chelicerae to make their fangs visible. When they move their pedipalps rapidly, I’m not sure exactly what it means but it’s usually when they are focused, excited, or scared.

It really depends on the age of the jumper, the personality of the jumper, and the species. Gender probably does have something to do with it, but it’s hard to say exactly what. But I do see females tend to be more skittish, my guess would be because they have a stronger drive to survive than males, whose drive is to mate, and living comes secondary.

to OP:
And yes the shape of pedipalps, abdomen, and legs look female

 

[Backcountry critters]

A threat pose for Phidippus audax is extending the front legs and opening their chelicerae to make their fangs visible. When they move their pedipalps rapidly, I’m not sure exactly what it means but it’s usually when they are focused, excited, or scared.

It really depends on the age of the jumper, the personality of the jumper, and the species. Gender probably does have something to do with it, but it’s hard to say exactly what. But I do see females tend to be more skittish, my guess would be because they have a stronger drive to survive than males, whose drive is to mate, and living comes secondary.

to OP:
And yes the shape of pedipalps, abdomen, and legs look female

The legs up fangs out pose seems very obvious now that I think about tarantulas haha. The statement about male spiders having a different outlook on life is such a good point considering they are risking being eaten themselves to procreate could most certainly make them more brazen then their female counterparts