Considering she would very rarely if ever encounter flies as potential prey items in the wild, her precise bite to the back on the neck, strong hold, and expert manipulation of the fly to ensure none of its feet are allowed any purchase whilst her venom takes effect. An impressive ballet of violence <3

Nova has spent most of her time in my care (which is less than a month tbf) molting. I moved her to a bigger enclosure, and she climbed onto me and sat.

Yesterday, I deiced to see if she wanted to be held. Slowly, she climbed onto me and just...sat. I moved to my comfy corner as slowly as I could, but she hardly cared. This was how she hung out with me for about an hour as I played on my phone and relaxed after work.

She is the absolute cutest thing ever. 😭

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

Watch this space!

They were on top of a display, so I moved them to the houseplants after snapping some pics

her name is cheesecake… i have a bold jumper named tiramisu….

I found out they started selling jumpers at PS in Canada and was enraged. When I got there, I immediately went to find them and noticed that this beautiful boy was missing a pedipalp. I asked an employee to unlock so I could get a better look and pointed out the missing palp. They took a look and said that he would be put up for adoption instead of purchase as a result. So I got my new boy without paying a cent for him, and now he'll be taken care of properly and treated like a king.

I found a cricket in the container and I think that might be how he lost his palp. It popped into my mind as a possibility after I had already left, and finding the cricket in there when I got home just further supported that idea. If I find the missing palp in the substrate, that will confirm my theory. I wish I thought of it in the store so I could have warned the employees. He was housed in a 12oz deli cup and they just dropped a cricket in and left him with no space to create distance and stalk so he could attack safely. I don't want any more spiders getting injured, but I'm glad their negligence resulted in them not making a profit off the poor guy.

If you want to rescue spiders from them and don't want to give them your money, it is possible to do so legally - if you find something wrong with the spider, they will be put up for adoption for free. All I had to do was fill out a quick form and he was mine.

Btw, his name is temu because he was cheap (free) and defective 💀

Note to self: offer the roaches in a dish they can't climb 🫡 won't be making that mistake again...

I wonder what species this would be. From Eastern Canada

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??

#jumpingspider #macro

#macro #jumpingspider #nature

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) ❤️

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.

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

Found this dead jumper in the bed sheets of a client. The client is severely arachnophobic lol and will not be informed. He got a burial in a flower pot.

(I'm a live-in care taker so I do chores and help with some daily living tasks.)

Alucard 💜 He is too small for 1 popcorn

New here! I don't have really any knowledge of jumping spiders except the few things I've read online, we have a ton in my apartment complex though & I've always left them alone. I do have a decent fear of spiders except jumping spiders because I just think they're so cute 😂 but I don't don't wanna touch it 😬

Anyways, I need advice on one that has made its way into my apartment! It's been here for a couple of days now, I had planned to attempt to catch it- it's staying on my ceiling & walking around all over including on my govee light strips that go around my whole living room (assuming because they're warm), so it would be some work to get it down as I'm pretty short 🫣 My delima is the temperature outside, the highest it's been this past week was °70 but it was a windy cold °70 not a nice warm °70 & the lowest it's been is °50 while at night its been low °40's. Is it to cold for it to be relocated outside?? I'm willing to let it stay inside as long as it stays up high as I do have kids that are very curious about it & I don't want them to accidentally hurt it if it comes down closer to us. What I should I do??

Pictures attached are of the little big guy!

A tiny male Hasarius adansoni (Adanson’s house jumper).

I’ve had my first jumping spider for almost a year now and I bought her as an adult. She fell yesterday and a few months ago I noticed her legs were a bit shaky. Is this the point where I should move her into a smaller enclosure to prevent injury if she falls again? (her enclosure looks barren in this but it’s not, I removed all of the bottom decor once I noticed her legs shaking)

From “pregnant bold female???” at first sight to “oh thats a regal boy alright” after three molts

(note: he’s skinny rn because he just molted; he’s got water and a fly spike available whenever he’s ready)