Quest for The Most Common Jumper In Texas: Complete!

[Nicole C G]

So for about a year now, I have been searching for the supposed most common Jumper species in Texas: Phidippus audax. However, no luck. But today I have moved to my new house, and finally, I have found not one, but TWO! A juvenile and an adult female!!
The adult female is so big! ≈1.5cm

 

[LadyShia77]

So for about a year now, I have been searching for the supposed most common Jumper species in Texas: Phidippus audax. However, no luck. But today I have moved to my new house, and finally, I have found not one, but TWO! A juvenile and an adult female!! View attachment 420442 View attachment 420443 View attachment 420444 View attachment 420445
The adult female is so big! ≈1.5cm

Very pretty and very similar to my Audaxes even though they're from different areas. Audaxes seem to be the most common here too. So far, I have two females and a male with one female expecting babies. Congratulations on your finds.

 

[Smotzer]

Well what a day indeed I found a male today for the first time in Texas! Love the tufts of setae on legs 1&2 for the males!

 

[viper69]

So for about a year now, I have been searching for the supposed most common Jumper species in Texas: Phidippus audax. However, no luck. But today I have moved to my new house, and finally, I have found not one, but TWO! A juvenile and an adult female!! View attachment 420442 View attachment 420443 View attachment 420444 View attachment 420445
The adult female is so big! ≈1.5cm

Texas? Try North America- by far one of the most common, maybe the most.

I’ve seen a few without looking. The females can be huge!!! Saw one on my shorts once.

 

[CRX]

Audax is such an awesome species. I find them all around my house here in Kentucky, they seem to love the walls of our garden beds, and the old wooden play fort in our backyard. I found my juvenile female inside the fort. I was smoking weed in it and looked up, and the little fat female was right above me looking down on me. I had been looking for a female for months, only finding males.

I love audax, great personality and great feeding response.

 

[Poonjab]

I have a few that are currently free range in my house.

 

[LadyShia77]

I have a few that are currently free range in my house.

My first audax (first jumping spider) was a free range male that decided not to stay in our bathroom. but came into our bedroom near our bed. I had told it previously that it could remain free so long as it stayed in the bathroom, but if it went anywhere else inside the house, it would become my pet (my bf is afraid of spiders). You can guess the rest lol. Shadow is such an awesome spider.

 

[SkittlesTheJumpingSpider]

So for about a year now, I have been searching for the supposed most common Jumper species in Texas: Phidippus audax. However, no luck. But today I have moved to my new house, and finally, I have found not one, but TWO! A juvenile and an adult female!! View attachment 420442 View attachment 420443 View attachment 420444 View attachment 420445
The adult female is so big! ≈1.5cm

Woah, congrats on your new little friends! Those pictures are amazing, since jumping spiders are so active- I don't think mine will ever let me get a picture of the front of his cephalothorax for an ID .

 

[wonderful]

I’ve been on the same quest. I can’t seem to find any around my house. I bet if I stop searching they will appear and taunt me with silly songs about how bad I am at finding them.

 

[Jonathan6303]

I found 4 this year so far in New York. There pretty spiders.

 

[Nicole C G]

-Videos of them

 

[Jonathan6303]

-Videos of them

You have a YouTube channel?

 

[Nicole C G]

You have a YouTube channel?

Yes there is a link to it in my bio

 

[SkittlesTheJumpingSpider]

Yes there is a link to it in my bio

Awesome, I'll have to check it out!

Woah, so many beautiful jumping spiders! Subscribed!

 

[Jonathan6303]

Yes there is a link to it in my bio

You film wild spiders?

 

[Nicole C G]

You film wild spiders?

Wild and captive. A few videos in there of Toast if you remember him.

 

[Jonathan6303]

Wild and captive. A few videos in there of Toast if you remember him.

Cool. Subscribed to your channel. Toast is the h undatus right.

 

[Nicole C G]

Cool. Subscribed to your channel. Toast is the h undatus right.

Habronattus coecatus adult male

 

[Jonathan6303]

Habronattus coecatus adult male
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That’s the one. I meant that but for some reason my brain froze and I put undatus

 

[Nicole C G]

That’s the one. I meant that but for some reason my brain froze and I put undatus

That’s okay. I have one of those too! Lol