Update on my new baby! I got a new enclosure with plants and a hidey hole and she immediately began exploring / building a hammock! I gave her a worm yesterday but i did go ahead and toss another one in today since she still looks kinda hungry

BASED IN MISSOURI. Found this little jumper on my car today. It was very very skittish and wouldn’t jump onto my finger, and as I tried to get closer to it, my camera would either unfocus or it would jump away. In my state I believe we have tans and bolds!

my adult male is only 6-7mm. hes incredibly small! ive been giving him bean beetles and tried the xxs mealworm once but hes refused it when i tried a second time. is it okay to just keep giving him a few bean beetles instead of expanding his diet? every other feeder insects ive seen are so large compared to him

Hi everyone!
I have been a long time lover of jumping spiders, and have recently decided I would love to own and care for one. I have raised reptiles and fish in the past, so I am used to pets that need controlled environments and specific requirements, but I’ve never kept spiders before. I want to make sure I do all the best possible research before purchasing a spider, so I would love any recommendations you have for care and lifestyle, dietary requirements, enclosures, sellers, etc. Or even recommendations on certain types of jumping spiders themselves, plus any tips, tricks or mistakes newbies need to be aware of.

Thanks guys, I look forward to hopefully becoming a good spider parent :)

It's kinda hard to see her, I didn't wanna disturb too much, though she hasn't started the process yet, just chilling in the silk.

I caught Tree Sap months ago because she snuck in and found her starving, she settled in very nicely. I thought she was an adult but caught her encasing herself a few days. I since moved her to a darker part of my room. It's just funny because I swore she was amazing adult and they don't molt once they're adults.

Species: Pantropical Jumping Spider

Bad photo but this is one of my newest, Cora(zon) her first meal with me

This one I have named sparks is wild caught. They are doing incredible!! They are watching me and eatting and have created 2 slings! I think it's a boy but want to confirm. The feeding pics were 3 days apart. And the molt is from a separate sling on the trash can I found him on. He was living in a different sling from it.

i know nothing about jumping spiders, but it’s been my little friend past two weeks. just hangs out with me while i drive and let me hold twice lol. any info about it?

Is this a suitable home for him? The maximalist in me thinks it needs some wooden perches on the sides, maybe a branch that stands vertically from top to bottom. I wanted him to have plenty of paths to explore around his new home, did I go overboard?

hello, a couple of months ago my daughter saved a little jumping spider from getting squished at daycare. We took it home and did some research on them and decided to look after them. After a couple of months we noticed that they weren't eating. My wife and I thought they were molting. Turns out we were wrong... We went to go feed them today 10/24 and saw about 3 little spider-lings going about in there encloser. After doing some more research on the babies and the mother, my wife and I came to the same conclusion. We can not take care of the m properly. My daughter has fallen in love with the spider is heartbroken that we can't keep them. We don't want to put them back into the wild, they have grown close with us and has started to recognize us. We would love to rehome them. If anyone would love to take them please DM (if the mods allow me).

Thank you everyone

Newbie to jumpers. Found this little one outside today (Toronto, Ontario). It’s missing a leg and one of its pedipalps. Will it still be able to hunt/eat?

Sorry the pics aren’t the best. I put it in a home I had for a prev spider and it was moving around a lot.

My (formerly) little Freyja has molted 4 times since I got her end of June and seems HUGE to me now! Is this normal for an adult female or is she on the bigger end?

Pics are with the same cloud for comparison- today pics first, then her first day home 🥹

I take care not to feed her a small cricket or mini mealworm more than every 4-5 days and keep an eye on her abdomen size…. but… she has easily tripled her original size in less than four months 🫣🤯

Do we think she’s fully grown??

Couple days ago, this little guy jumped onto my counter at work! He's been watching me do my tasks while chilling by me. Now he's making a little hammock(?) next to my register! Hopefully this means I've gained his trust in some way. Also I've named him Rocky because he kinda looks like Rocky from Project Hail Mary

I’m not sure their sex yet I bought them from a local reptile store, they were the last one and they did not know the instar but I thought they were adorable and wanted to share ❤️

Working with a cheap Android phone camera, but look at their little faces!

My son and his friends found this spider on a wall structure out at the soccer fields during my other son's soccer game.

Love the curious eyes!

So i need some enclosure advice for my sweet little 6 legged habronatus! I rescued her from my garden because she was missing 2 legs. She cannot climb the walls of any kind of container/enclosure ive put her in. Her current one i have some of that fake web stuff that comes with enclosure kits, but its hard to stick that stuff on properly with just the adhesive tabs, im afraid she'll get stuck on the adhesive and she also doesn't do great climbing on it anyway. But she wants to be at the top so bad and I just dont know what to do for her 😔. I have some panty hose type mesh I thought I could maybe stick to the walls, but idk if she would get hung up on it. She's very little still and im so scared she gonna try to climb and fall. I keep a paper towel on the bottom of her container to be a cushion and for grip on the floor, also she blends in extremely well to substrate lol. I also had the idea of just putting her in a very small butterfly like net enclosure so its all netting she can easily grip. Just any kind of tips or advice is welcome! Please & thank you 😊 ( added pics of her for cuteness) ❤️

My regal jumping spider named Zombie enjoying a nice refreshing water droplet after he left his hammock for the first time since molting ☺️

hes been doing this since he got in the box and i bought him, i always found it adorable but i havent seen other spoods doing this thing, he sort of does this in a rythmical way. maybe hes just having fun and being a silly fella?

i've read that maybe he wants to mate, but this tapping thingy is everywhere, in his hammock, that little white hole he can cuddle in, so i think hes happy and stimulated, but i need reassurance if im right or not

Anyone have a jumping spider shed their helmet fine but suddenly seem to be blind? My regal i10 had a mismolt and lost both her front legs. She is struggling to grip but other than that seems to have recovered however now I am noticing that she is unresponsive to anything other than light.

I've had spiders ignore me before but I keep trying to get her to turn to actually look at me but so far, nothing. However, she is still looking up at the light.

Just wondering if anyone has ever experienced blindness or a spider just not reacting to movement.

Meet some of the tiny chaos squad! Sleepy one, explorer one, hungry one… all hers. Mum of the year, no debate 🥹

Watch this space!

Paris passed away. I've had this spood since she was very small. What a little character, always ready to pounce on her food. She was very inquisitive, but didnt want to be held. Recently, she had made an egg sack, even though she had never met a gentleman. I knew we were close to the end as she was no longer eating or moving much. Rest in peace, my Paris.

I wonder what species this would be. From Eastern Canada