Salticidae photos

druid8783

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Those are some awesome pictures!

Does anyone else think jumping spiders are cute?
 

gothmog

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Jumpers are great :D

Here's a little zebra captured for an hour last summer :)



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druid8783

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I catch little jumpers all the time. Those little stripped ones (we call them zebra spiders) The best is when they throw a threat display at you. I think it's hilarious. {D
 

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I really want one, are they in the NY area? I hear they can catch a fly in mid air. Gotta see that one day! ;)
 

Dark Raptor

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Gothmog, nice photo! :D

I've found that this third salticid is: Salticus scenicus.
I kept them for almost one year. It's not so difficult.
 

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Dark Raptor said:
Gothmog, nice photo! :D

I've found that this third salticid is: Salticus scenicus.
I kept them for almost one year. It's not so difficult.
the first one is evarcha arcuata and the second is her male.
the third one looks a bit light on its back so it could also be salticus cingulatus, and that seem to be the case with the fourth zabra as well.
on the page http://www.ntnu.no/vmuseet/nathist/norspider/Pictures.htm
is a photo of the ligther cingulatus (even if the text says scenicus)
 

Dark Raptor

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More pics!

Not ID Salticidae (Evarcha arcuata?)





 
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CedrikG

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hahahah they're soo cute ... look at these little eyes looking at you
 

cacoseraph

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http://bugguide.net/node/view/2284

i believe i have that species, or a very similar looking one. it laid an egg sac and the babies hatched at now i'm waiting to see what they're going to do. if they grow up well, i could send you some :)
i also have what i believe to be Phidippus johnsoni, and when i caught it she was unbelievably fat, and just recently lost a lot of weight, so she might have laid an eggsac as well.
 

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RaZeDaHeLL666 said:
I really want one, are they in the NY area? I hear they can catch a fly in mid air. Gotta see that one day! ;)
They can be found just about anywhere.

/Lelle
 

cacoseraph

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i find a lot around areas where ppl eat food a lot (picnic tables at work). i think the ppl are messy and then all the bugs that eat human leavings increase in population and then the jumpers find them. there is one picnic table i've seen 2 carolina mantids and 2 dif kind of jumpers on, and never found them anywhere else at work :)
 

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Dark Raptor said:
Not ID Salticidae (Evarcha arcuata?)





UNBELIEVABLE pics! That CLOSE up is UNREAL. I am still staring :eek:

EXCELLENT pics!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE jumpers! I have 2 right now that are about 1/2" and they have such a personality!!! SO funny! I love to catch them looking around. And it is pretty cool watching them stalk their prey.

They are a *spider* all to their own :)
 

KLiK

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such beauties! did anyone see the thing on the national geographic channel where they used a robotic image of a jumping spider to communicate with a live jumping spider? they also had the same spider hunting and it used 3 different methods to stalk and kill prey. for each different sized prey the spider used a different method. it was amazing. i think they said that jumping spiders are the most intellegent out of all spiders.
 

Dark Raptor

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Ok. More of them... :)

Salticus scenicus - adult female






Evarcha arcuata - male







Evarcha arcuata - female (eating mealworm)



And not identified jumping spider



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