what kind of jumping spider is this?

[Cocoa-Jin]

Ive seen them twice here in Burbank, CA. The first one crawled out from behind one of our instruments one day during one of our flights. It decided to show itself right before the Final Approach Fix during an approach with one my Captain trainees...it totally threw him off.

Its not the best pic, I'll add others as I find them.
Edit: here is another pic thats looks like it may be the same species...though I thought it had a bit more cream color on the abdomen pattern.

Its about 1/2 inch long, light grey with dark speckles/stripes on its legs and cephlathorax. It has dark iridescent green and blue on its chelicerae.

Its an absolutly gorgeous species...Im hoping to collect one next spring if I can...its getting it past my wife thats going to be hard.

 

[rustym3talh3ad]

a cute one with a goofy eye hahaha.

 

[Widowman10]

phidippus sp. is my guess.

 

[Pulk]

it looks a lot like P. adumbratus... but don't take my word for it.

 

[Cocoa-Jin]

it looks a lot like P. adumbratus... but don't take my word for it.

Thats it...I just did a search and someone in Ventura County, Ca. has pics of it...thats only 40 miles from here, toward the coast.

Now to learn more.

Thanks a lot:clap:

 

[davidbarber1]

I have seen several of those in my backyard when I used to live in San Clemente, CA. A beautiful specimen.

David

 

[jynxxxedangel]

WANT!!

Add yet another Phidippus to my Pok'e-list. Gotta catch 'em all!

LMAO @ how the spider "showed herself" at the moment of greatest effect. I have long suspected Phidippus know they are big, creepy spiders to most people, and have an incredible sense of timing and humour.

 

[Cocoa-Jin]

I may have learned they have a very cool way of protecting themselves in a fall. The one I found last week jumped off the leave I put it on. When i went to pick it up to place it some place else other than the tarmac, I noticed an unbelievable amount of webbing strands had saturated the area.

It seems they release a massive amount of strands which seems to be like Spawn's cap when he flys. It was everywhere it seemed, presumably slowing its descent.

Its still hard to verify since I felt it instead of seeing it.

 

[deathwing]

The mite is cuter.
*reads the line again

 

[jynxxxedangel]

I may have learned they have a very cool way of protecting themselves in a fall. The one I found last week jumped off the leave I put it on. When i went to pick it up to place it some place else other than the tarmac, I noticed an unbelievable amount of webbing strands had saturated the area.

It seems they release a massive amount of strands which seems to be like Spawn's cap when he flys. It was everywhere it seemed, presumably slowing its descent.

Its still hard to verify since I felt it instead of seeing it.

When jumpers are tiny hatchlings, about three days after they disperse from the egg sac, they will begin to roam from the mother's lair and search out moist places (to find water and small prey). A good way to do this swiftly is "ballooning," or sending out a parachute line of silk to catch the wind, using air currents as a speedy form of travel. Many spiders exhibit this behaviour, and jumping spiders are no exception. I didn't know adult jumping spiders ballooned to slow a fall, though! Amazing..

I've witnessed another interesting webbing behaviour in penultimate P. audax; they will actually use webbing to tire out larger prey in a deli cup. The spider will make a maze of sorts with random webbing in the fly's path of travel, sometimes even entangling it in the sticky maze. After the fly is sufficiently worn out or stuck, the spider pounces, usually from the rear. The little spider releases the fly from its jaws, once the poison has taken effect, and rotates the fly so it can begin its meal at the anterior. I didn't know jumpers actually laid "trap webs" until I kept them! :? Has anyone else observed this behaviour with juvenile Phidippus?

 

[dtknow]

trap webs? Sounds more like an artifact of captivity and a relatively small enclosure. Thats not going to work in the boonies.

 

[jynxxxedangel]

Could very well be a behaviour induced by captivity..but it's still noteworthy. It proves the great intelligence and adaptability of this Genus.

 

[LasidoraGT]

Cute, cute, cute, cute, cute, CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dtknow]

Could very well be a behaviour induced by captivity..but it's still noteworthy. It proves the great intelligence and adaptability of this Genus.

Dunno. My thinking is the spider is merely laying so much dragline in a small place it becomes a trap.

 

[SandyMuffinCakes94]

awh i love jumping spiders , there my fav!! someone mate a tarantula and jumping spider!!! muhahaha Nice pics!

 

[jsloan]

<I may have learned they have a very cool way of protecting themselves in a fall>

Wherever jumping spiders walk, jump, etc. they trail a single silk line behind them, a dragline. If they fall this is all that they rely on to break their fall. The other threads you saw were probably something else. I say "probably" to hedge my bets. It's not impossible, but unlikely. However, this can be tested! How about putting the spider in "jeopardy" several more times (make it fall) and see if the ballooning threads show up again when it falls? Make sure the area is clean before each fall.

 

[ZergFront]

hmmm

<I may have learned they have a very cool way of protecting themselves in a fall>

Wherever jumping spiders walk, jump, etc. they trail a single silk line behind them, a dragline. If they fall this is all that they rely on to break their fall. The other threads you saw were probably something else. I say "probably" to hedge my bets. It's not impossible, but unlikely. However, this can be tested! How about putting the spider in "jeopardy" several more times (make it fall) and see if the ballooning threads show up again when it falls? Make sure the area is clean before each fall.

I've noticed a little trick of my Phids, too. When I wasn't sure one had an egg sac I was trying to look in using my tweezers to spread the silk, but everytime I pushed to webbing against the sides of the root interior, she'd pull a sheet of more silk overhead downward with her front legs and block the view. When I noticed her attack the tweezers, it gave me the idea of sticking the prey in with her. I could tell when she ate because I would find the remains by the entrance and a new "door."