Phidippus Only

[Keith Richard]

Interesting thread (if maybe in the wrong forum). Where would I obtain the regius red variant? That has to be one of the cutest bugs on the planet. I recently offered my finger upto a jumping spider in UK, and the little bugger actually jumped onto it and hopped from one knuckle to another.

 

[Ewok]

Those are great pics! I used to have a female P. ardens, she had an eggsack, took care of it until the eggs hatched an then died haha

 

[ShadowBlade]

Yes, jumpers are cool. Then only jumpers I've ever raised were ones I caught myself. Fun to raise. Anyone here bred 'em?
(I've only bred like Daring jumpers)

 

[Sof]

I've had a gravid female I caught and didn't know it until I seen all these black dots all over my ceiling lol.

Heres some more pics...

 

[DR zuum]

Nice Phidippus otiosus there Sof,Great shot.

 

[Sof]

I got your pm Dr Zuum, just to clairify though, I found that pic on the net The one I currently have looks like the first pic I posted. But I found two big audax's (the kind with the white stripes and dots) in my backyard today, I'll get around to catching them and probably take some shots.

Heres another one, Phidippus Mystaceus

 

[xgrafcorex]

haha looks like a punk rocker! jumpers rule!

 

[P. Novak]

heres one of mine...

 

[DR zuum]

Phidippus borealis from a recent pairing eggs with legs.Used acdsee pro 8 to clean it up a bit,well as best i could.

 

[swatc1h]

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[swatc1h]

HOST i meant good quality uploaders link!!!!

 

[DR zuum]

heres one of mine...

Let us know if she turns black i see some blacking in your second pic,juvies have the lighter color and banding but black out as adults in johnsoni.If she keeps the light color and banding on her legs its Ardens,they are very close in description.

 

[P. Novak]

Alrighty will do, whats the average adult size for this species?

 

[DR zuum]

Most of the adult females i have are at 3/4th to 1 inch.

 

[Taceas]

My new pet, since my real T's are held up in Memphis till tomorrow, I found this little guy trying to impersonate Moses and was floating across the pool.

They're such adorable little buggers!

Phidippus audax - Daring Jumping Spider

Not the best picture, I know. But she won't sit still and I couldn't even bribe her with some food to sit still. So this will have to suffice for now. =)

....at least I think its female. No 'boxing gloves' on the pedipalps, no sign of tibial spurs, and I see a definite cleft in the ventral abdomen.

 

[Stefan2209]

Hi,

great pic of a fascinating species, wish we had them here,too!

Thanks for sharing, show some more please, if you have! :worship:

Greetings,

Stefan

 

[Taceas]

Just for you Steffan, since I've enjoyed all of your awesome pictures immensely!

Front:

Dorsal:

Ventral:

Just tell me your secret on how you get them to sit still. Do you cool them down at all before picture shoots?

 

[Stefan2209]

Whoa,

Thanks, great pics!

Sorry, i really don´t know a trick how to shoot jumpers either. For every single pic i show, that turned out ok, i shot twenty more that turned out bad.

The only thing i came up with to enhance the chances of a good pic, is to shoot them while they´re feeding. Then they´re quite occupied and don´t move so much. However, a drawback with this method is, that your motive always "has its mouth full".... :?

My last foto-session with my asian jumper however was fairly easy, he didn´t move to much. Don´t know why, but it maybe due to a very recent molt....

Will try this again after its next molt, perhaps this would be a fairly reliable method... However, again this will just work as long, as you have specimen at hand that aren´t adult yet.

Talked to some professionals about this, but even those pro´s didn´t come up with a working trick. One of them said, it took him one day to get one single good pic of a jumper.... Oh dear.

Greetings,

Stefan

 

[Skypainter]

I would have to say that jumpers are my favorite spiders. I love their personality. I was in Louisiana a few weeks ago for work. I do environmental testing and was setting up an ambient air sampler when I noticed a female Phiddipus audax on the telephone pole next to me. She had made a home behind a metal sign nailed to the pole. She was very shy and would hide whenever i got near the pole, until I caught her a nice fat juicy katydid. Before I even placed the katydid on the telephone pole, she came out of her hideout and eyed the katydid like a dog begging to recieve a treat. She snatched it as soon as I put it in front of her and when I left, I could still see her feasting on it. The katydid was as big as she was, so she's probably fat and happy now!

 

[DR zuum]

Heres the eggs with legs again after a little zuum love.