#Phidippus

[ratbugs]

it is once again

little guy time

[esme-elora]

My jumping spider Pumpkin has gotten so big 😭 she's in her ninth instar now

She's grown to be such a sweet little lady and loves to help me work. Look how helpful she is!

[apsciencebydan]

Look at him 🥹

(Young Phidippus cardinalis boy would like a snacc, I'm sure)

[herpsandbirds]

Red-backed or Johnson's Jumping Spider (Phidippus johnsoni), B/M - male, T - female, family Salticidae, CA, USA

photographs by Kaldari 

[onenicebugperday]

Victory jumping spider, Phidippus nikites, Salticidae

This species is found west of the Rocky Mountains and displays a wide range of coloration from white and bright yellow to bright red, with adult coloration usually in combination with black.

Photos 1-2 by nature4lzw, 3-4 by reptipods, 5 by silversea_starsong, 6 by ianmwright86, 7 by brian_wright, 8-9 by mhedin, and 10 (for scale) by llellin

[platycryptus]

Phidippus purpuratus is a large jumping spider most often found in Canada and the northern US, where they live on the ground or among boulders in exposed, rocky habitats like mountaintops and sea cliffs. This is a rather different lifestyle from some of their more arboreal cousins, and I assume they rely on the warmth of sun-baked rocks to sustain activity in the cold and windswept places they inhabit.

They’re well camouflaged among the lichen covered granite on this mountain in Maine, probably because they have to be- more conspicuously colored jumpers like P. regius and audax often have the option to drop into dense vegetation when threatened, but I saw these hunting on bare rock with nowhere to run should they face the misfortune of being spotted by a bird.

(Maine, 7/26/22)

[tinylongwing]

A sweet fuzzy Phidippus californicus, California jumping spider, watching the world from a patch of Swiss chard. Private commission for @halffizzbin. I love these cute little teddy bears so much 💗

[morbidsmenagerie]

She was being super cute in her flower.

[kas-e]

Juvenile Phidippus x Otiosus & Hybrid

[mimblex]

Two new things in my shop, jumping spider stickers and BUTTONS!! (very limited stock on the buttons btw, get em while you can!)

[artastic-friend]

FOUND THE MOST ADORABLE PHIDIPPUS FEMALE!!

I think she might be a Phidippus audax female but it’s hard for me to be sure!

If I get confirmation that she is one for sure, then I’ll edit this to say that!

[ratbugs]

not to brag but I actually have THE CUTEST SPIDER BABY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD and it’s true it’s true it’s true

Sweet baby Boots 🥾 , she’s perfectly bite sized and so polite 🐜🥕

[esme-elora]

Tucked

[apsciencebydan]

Phidippus workmani lass, grooming after finishing off a very large grasshopper 💛 This species is the first Phidippus I ever saw. They're endemic to Florida and Georgia and are always a treat to see in the savannah habitat they seem to love. Gold Lumps.

[herpsandbirds]

Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax), family Salticidae, found across much of the United States

Photograph by Michael Kam

[onenicebugperday]

Bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax) female, Salticidae

Photographed by Thomas Shahan