Spoods and Friends

The Chatbug #jumpingspiders #spood #spooder #jumpingspider #spider #spiderlove #Phidippus #phidippusregius #SierradeBaharuco Thanks for the video to @vampirepriestess.bsky.social

Stock image of Carrhotus xanthogrammar

Well, turns out we are wrong. We caught a Carrothus xanthogrammar, which is a north european species that would just about live in my area.

As amazing as it would have been to find out one of my escapees had made it outside and stayed nearby, this was also a pretty amazing experience!

The spider we caught

Among speculations of environmental influence and calculating the minimal chances of any neighbor having jumping spiders, we were convinced this could not be a local species. We do not have ANYTHING like that.

The Phidippus johnsoni female with her signature red abdomen separated by a long black stripe

When we were inside, I looked at it closely and kept having doubts. I had lost a female Ph. johnsoni and this looked like a male. And even though this was bigger than the ometepe I had lost and must have gone through molts, mine had green on its butt. Googling showed that neither of them fit 100%.

The Ph. ometepe I lost

There is it‘s butt

When we had caught it, we were convinced, it could not be a domestic species, so we excitedly assumed it was one of my escapees, namely my escaped Ph. ometepe from April or even my escaped Ph. johnsoni from even earlier.

Spider caught on the beam in a small container

Yesterday, as we were in the yard, @crazydegulady.bsky.social excitedly called me to get a small container RIGHT NOW and hurry.

She had noticed a jumping spider on a beam and it looked unlike the Salticus scenicus and Marpissa muscosa jumpers that we tend have in nature here.

Not the smartest spood in the cube #jumpingspider #spider #jumpingspiders #spooder #phidippus

Den Spruch muss ich mir merken!!!

Apparently the English name is Fence post spider

She walked up to me on the table, so I put the sugar lit over her

I believe this is a Marpissa muscosa female

strip of fabric sample, cut the grass and branch to size. Soak moss.

Glue grass, drill hole cover, branch and clothes pin with hammock to the inside of the enclosure. Tweezers help. Put a bit of soaked moss into the drill hole cover.

Done!

> Rock display case (Amazon)

Use the drill on a low setting to make the three holes you need: Left and right big enough for the eyelets, top for the perfume bottle cap.

If you get it right, you won’t need any glue, but if not, hot glue helps.

Use the clothes pin to form a tiny hammock with a

Most accessories can be sourced from Temu, Ali Express and Amazon.

> mesh ventilation eyelets (Ali Express)
> Perfume sample bottle caps (Temu)
> mini clothes pins (Temu)
> drill hole covers (Temu)
> spaghnum moss (exotic animal shop)
> fake grass (Temu)
> fabric samples (JOANN)
> branch (nature)

drill bits

you can make beautiful little baby nurseries with Rock display cases. All you need is an HSS coated conical drill bit [usually for metal] or several HSS coated normal bits in the right sizes, hot glue and a few accessories.

an empty enclosure?

no! she is hiding behind a fake bush!!

I was looking for a spider I‘m holding for @vampirepriestess.bsky.social and nearly freaked because I could not find her!!

kitty (phidippus otiosus orange) has caught a fly twice her size. She is sitting on a miniature cat tree

Sooo… we gave kitty a big fat flesh fly we found on my window. We thought she would probably not go for due to its size.

Kitty thought otherwise.

Phidippus regius rastafari female has a meal worm wrapped around her head as she is sinking her teeth into it

🌟 Fashion ⭐️

What a lovely jumper! And I love the name!

Kitty is hungry.

One of my new babies (or rather that for a friend) arrived dead 😭

Rockette in: My first human hand #jumpingspider #spoodah #spooder #cutespider #exoticpet #viralvideo

A row of tiny enclosures with scientific spider named written on them. Description of homes in the next images

A little sling is hiding in a loop made of cloth that is held together by an orange cloth pin

A tiny cube with fake grass. a little log and a pink tiny clothes pin with a blue fabric attached into a loop for the sling to sleep in. Feeding hole and air vents installed. and a little white thing in the back to add spaghnum moss.

similar enclosure with an orange pin

We made the most adorable slinger homes with little sleeping bags.

she is wedged between fake rocks in her enclosure

close up. She has a dark head, brown on the back of her butt, and a beige stripe over her eyes down to her mouth.

She pretended to be a Rock, so now she is a Rockette. (Phidippus regius dos gardenas)

Marshmallow is driving me nuts! He‘s thin but doesn‘t eat anything! He also does not grow or molt.

He‘s my very first spood and others have outgrown him.

Quite randomly, one of the lights we got for the enclosures was not a yellow light like the others but a color changing one that had snuck into the box. So we made a Spider-Disco.

pictures*

The little ometepe is peeking out from the rim of her transport container

And then there is this little Phidippus sp. ometepe. She is replacing my previous one, Kiwano, which sadly escaped and could not be found. As of this time, she has not dared to explore her new home.

the butt of the little Phidippus regius audax is mostly brownish orange with a white triangle in the middle, surrounded by black and a shimmering green spot further at the back of the abdomen

Er further have some really small babies in what I call the Slingergarten. They have mostly been impossible to take pucture of.

3x Phidippus carolinensis
1x Phidippus regius cuba
2x Phidippus regius audax

A brown spider with a beige stripe over her eyes, a black one beneath. fluffy beige cheliceres and black tips on the legs is looking curiously at the camera. She is next to a hideout made from two clam halves glued together

Madame Phidippus sp. dos Gardenas offered me a drum solo as she was watching me. She did not like my offering of gold fly grub, though.

A spider clinging to an acrylic ceiling, her reflection showing. Are gas a black gangster stripe over get eyed and a white stripe beneath and appears yellowing-orange otherwise

The same species with the same markings clinging to the side of the container. You can see four lovely "eyelashes"

a tinier, very fuzzy version of the same species sitting on a piece of paper cloth in an enclosure with black netting in the back.

We have three lovely Phidippus otiosus Orange. The first two are females, the last is smaller and unsexed at this point.