LAZY JUMPING SPOOD

[remarah1337]

So my Phiddipus regius female reached maturity and all she does is sleep in her luxury hide and basically 90% of the time never comes out.

Is this normal behavior? Or is this just her adult temperament

She barely explores. Instead she just sleeps all day.

thank you

 

[The Snark]

If she is well fed she is doing exactly what she is supposed to do; extending her life span so she will remain in the reproductive cycle longer. You can test by introducing a male in the enclosure and see if her activity increases.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

If she is well fed she is doing exactly what she is supposed to do; extending her life span so she will remain in the reproductive cycle longer. You can test by introducing a male in the enclosure and see if her activity increases.

is this typical of all spiders? Why is sleeping never mentioned in various guides involving spiders. I assumed they slept since I’ve caught Ts doing it , and surly all animals do. But I’ve not had a jumper in ages they got so rare here I don’t see them anymore .

 

[The Snark]

is this typical of all spiders?

Pretty typical of all predators - and many omnivores. The female usually maintains a smaller patrol area than the male, storing up energy for gestation periods. With salticids my easy way of sexing them is if they are ranging widely all over the walls they are males. There is one in our bathroom right now that confines itself to two walls, the floor and the ceiling and spends most of it's time on one wall near the ceiling, unmoving. I'm reasonably certain it's female. When she appears to be fully mature I'll move her outside. The males in the house go everywhere, usually visiting all the rooms.

With bears my horse was an expert indicator. His ears and demeanor relayed he picked up bear scent with him being a dominant stallion which by natural selection are the top of the herd as protectors and highly sensitive to threats. He picked it up over a wide area on occasion and in one locale he picked it up every time we got near an area of about 10-15 acres. Over the summer I was able to plot things pretty well with two, possibly three males ranging over about 20-25 square miles and a female in that one area, smack in the middle of a great mass of manzanita with rocky outcropping likely to have a recess or two or maybe even a cave.