Love the arm waves. 💕

Hi everyone, I'm not really a spider fan. Actually I have severe arachnophobia. This little guy was in my car. I was getting ready to take my teenage son to high-school. I saw this guy on my dashboard and my daughter jumped out of the car without warning me and when I saw it, I too jumped out of the car. My son had not come out of the house yet. My daughter finds the spider cute so she laughed while I pondered how I would get my son to school. Long story short, I called a lyft and now my car will sit there for a while as I do not know where the spider went. Location of this little guy in Indiana.

finally pulled out my macro lens with my new phone (ive had the iphone 17 pro for a few months; just hadnt bothered yet. used to have iphone 13 and same macro lens). hes so beautiful. i looked over at him on my hand and his chels looked sooo oti colored but of course when i got my phone out, they looked more green and not that yellow hued. last pic to show how a pedicle looks to maybe help ease people worried abt abdominal separation!
also for id purposes: reg/oti hybrid; if you recognize me and know my personal spiders, this is vhagar :) i didnt let him sit on my glasses forever today bc i have stuff to do and hes pacing now that ive put him back 😭

super interesting find.. this little guy was dead, but still latched onto a little fly. found them upside down on my trash can and moved them to a plant. i wonder what could’ve been the cause of death here…

Picked up our first jumping spider (bubbles as named by our 4 year old) this weekend. Didn't realise that I liked jumping spiders as much as I do..

So, is it safe to rate the seller poorly and try to identify them as a scam at this point? I don’t want to hurt a small business, but at this point I feel I’ve been more than patient and understanding. No refund. No spider. But I still felt bad putting in the rating.

Three small bug businesses have taken my money in June and still not delivered, refunded, or resolved the issues. It’s so disappointing when these people can keep up with social media marketing but can’t make situations like this right.

Found this little guy in between the leaves of my plant. He hung around for like 2 days but has moved out since. Sorry my crappy iPhone zoom doesn’t do him justice

Location: Northern Illinois

Are these pretty common here? Is he a baby? He was so tiny.

I’ve wanted a jumper for awhile now & had already gotten an enclosure all set up for when I had a chance to go buy one from a pet store or breeder. However, I found this little thing Sunday evening & thought I’d try keeping it.

He/she (I can’t tell. Any tips are appreciated) seems to have acclimated somewhat well. It’s moving about the enclosure & seems curious, but a part of me feels bad for taking it from the wild. Even though the “wild” it was living in was the metal siding on our house 😅. I’ve ordered some mini mealworms to try and feed it today, so we’ll see how that goes. If it doesn’t eat in 2 days, I’ll likely release.

I just wanted to see what everyone’s opinions are on wild caught? Is it okay to do that? Has anyone had any luck keeping them & them thriving?

Also, can anyone tell me what it’s doing in the video? I tried researching & couldn’t find anything. I’m assuming it could be a reaction to me having the flash on to video 🫣

So I live in Northern VA just outside of Washington DC and I was grilling some burgers when this guy stopped and said hi.

I don’t know if anyone can identify it but I’m interested in knowing. My daughter of course wanted to keep it but I explained we didn’t have a proper enclosure setup and if it’s an adult jumper his/her hammock would be close by.

Now my kid wants a pet jumping spider so I started researching. Nice to see this subreddit, I’m experienced with bioactive enclosures and have kept many inverts in the past. Jumping spiders don’t seem overly complicated and the enclosure size is small compared to some of my past animals. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.

Thanks

Made a portrait of my baby, learning how to do spider portraits. Send your babies and I will practice and send them your way, just trying to get practice. Anyone else do drawings or paintings of jumpers? I’d love to see for inspo.

She just wants to say hello from Germany

she’s been hanging out in my window sill for like a week. she isn’t very social but she comes out every so often to say hi. she’s found a strong liking to my rock collection🥹 also please excuse my horrid filming

She had been living in door seal of a car that would have gone into the world so we took her in.

Location: lower NC idk if that helps.

Hey everyone! My P. regius White Bahamas just molted to i6, so I wanted to get updated opinions on sexing. Here is the new photo! To me it's still difficult to tell! The colours and chelicerae seems male but the pedipalp fluff and lack of bulb leans female 😆

​( If you want to see the previous i5 post for comparison, here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/jumpingspiders/s/McvkJJe1a0 )

So after some thought about interacting with my jumping spiders I finally decided to interact with her and let her out of her enclosure to see her explore. Within seconds she was gone… I couldn’t find her anywhere and I’m devastated. Did I do something wrong? I see so many people interacting with their jumpers I thought it would be okay. I have autism and just feel totally lost.

It’s been far too long since I’ve seen my sweet wild baby, Queenie. She laid eggs within about a week of my scooping her off my front porch mid-July. Today she has emerged fully and I separated her from the hammock of babies in a fine mesh butterfly net. I am so excited to take care of as many of these lil fellas as I can!

Im thinking this baby is a female but I'm not positive, also obviously a juvenile but how many molts do you think he/she has been through?

I was letting him crawl onto my finger at his own pace from one of his platforms, but then he started biting me, I eventually pulled my finger away but then I googled it and it said he was just trying to feel stable. Do you think I hurt him / do you think he won’t trust me in the future? For context, he has climbed onto my finger/ hand 2 times before and didn’t bite