#spoods

[jenfoundabug]

My rather large spider friend wishes you a belated Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 🕷️

Genus Tibellus (slender crab spiders)

Northern California, US

[achoirofcritters]

Help I adore them 😭😭

Hex is my bold jumping spider and the first little guy that is actually relatively chill with being On me.

10 years ago the idea that I would be happy to hold a spider would have sounded outrageous to me. Jumpers have done wonders for my arachnophobia and teaching me to love and find wonder in places many others do not. 🖤🖤

[kas-e]

Variations of Female x Regal Jumper (Phidippus Regius)

All subjects collected in the wild on the coast of North Florida. First and second shot are simple stacks of a few exposures, while the last is a single shot. Last shot photographed with a Nikon D300 paired with the Sigma 105DG on a half stack of tubes, first two stacks are with a 28mm f3.5 Ai-S Nikkor reverse mounted.

[ss-trashboat]

p.o.v. you're me eating cereal

@embracethechange

[nimchimpskyphd]

How has this tarantula spider pillow not sold out yet?! It's 60% off and I don't need another one but it's just wild to me (although I do know a lot of people have arachnophobia / same). Spider lovers, go get it. It didn't sell well so they probably won't bring spider things back next Halloween. 😞

[bam-monsterhospital]

-sees a spood dangling down from the ceiling on a silk grappling line-

uuuugh goddammit, you couldn't just stay on the ceiling could you? welp, time to get a tissue, it's squish-oclock i guess.

-gets close to it and realizes it's a cute widdle zebra jumping spider-

oh! well then! fuck the tissue, climb aboard my hand lil buddy it's time for you to go outside ouo

(i'm only now regretting i didn't have my phone ready to take a picture of them ;__; )

[frowzyfeathers]

This is Frank.

I love them so much.

They're such a cute baby that loves to hunt things that move.

I believe that they're a bold jumper (Phidippus audax), and they're in their 7th instar.

He has a cute temporary habitat until the Tarantula Cribs enclosures come in a few weeks. And yes, it's a bk icecream cup with holes poked into it. It works.

DIYed by yours truly from a stick, a fake stem, popsicle sticks, hot glue, some string, a few magnets, moss from outside, and some dollar store flare with the sunflowers. They love running around in it.

[calexcryptid]

I got so stuck on what to draw for today’s prompt that I’m just going to come back to it. As a placeholder please accept (harder) daddy long legs. Sorry.

02. spiders

[biovyxart]

Food Spoods - Hawaii edition

[jenfoundabug]

Oregon paradise jumping spider (Habronattus oregonensis) with some sort of prey, most likely another spider species. Northern California

[achoirofcritters]

Did you guys know I love and keep jumping spiders? 👀

One of my more unorthodox pets but I’m really in love with them. These are my three current kids, the first one I just brought home from the local reptile expo today! A female regal I’m thinking of naming Helena. The middle one is my bold jumper, Hex. And the last one is still my tiniest little guy, a red backed jumper I called Harley! I had to use one of my macro shots of that one as they’re still too small to photograph well on my phone!

[two-little-spoods]

Aphonopelma Hentzi.

Oklahoma Brown Tarantula

Based on my sweet Henrietta RIP

[kas-e]

P. Otiosus (subadult male)

P. Regius (adult female)

Two Salticidae species from Florida that are known to cross breed in nature.  Regius are far more common, I used to find them everywhere.  Despite a lot of collecting, I very rarely came across P. Otiosus in the wild.  Both are quite large, colorful examples of jumping spider.    

[going-down-to-orlando]

He's so tiny! Crazy to think he's going to get so big in the future–though, curlies grow SUPER slowly, so you have another while. I hope he ends up growing into a very chill tarantula (which is very likely considering the species being known to be docile).

Amazing choice for a first (is it your first?) tarantula. I doubt you'll stay only having one though, tarantulas are addictive (I know, it sounds bad, but I swear it's a common phenomenon).

Just one thing, though you probably know this already. Curlies are an arid species, so make sure you don't spray his enclosure TOO much, and give him a water bowl when he's big enough to drink from one (water bottle caps work perfectly)

IVE GOT MY PET TARANTULA