tarantulajelly: If you’ve known me for two seconds, you know I…
Monday, July 4th, 2016If you’ve known me for two seconds, you know I love, L O V E jumping spiders. They’re the cutest little things and so attentive. I love to watch them watching me, you can see them actively trying to figure things out. This little dude is a Phidippus audax, or Bold Jumping Spider. I’ve named it Sprite :D.
I’ve already enjoyed the heck out of watching it get around. Seriously, if you get a chance to watch a jumping spider, give it a shot, they’re entertaining little buggers. In this photo, it was leaning down to watch my fingers as they stabilized my camera on the countertop :).
In reference to the person who asked yesterday, another huge difference between P. audax and P. regius is size. P. regius easily dwarfs P. audax, with P. regius being the largest species of jumper in the Eastern US. It can still be difficult to tell them apart when they’re still tiny little slings, though. As the name implies, what these guys lack in size, they make up for in personality.
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