Taming the Jumping Spider

The little jumping spider has emerged from her hiding space in the enclosure.

I have her in the cricket enclosure and when the sun heats up the enclosure she comes out to hunt.

Some changes have happened since I last saw her. She must have molted and now her orange markings have turned white.

This was her a week earlier after getting bloated on eating crickets. She was in the process of making a web sac to molt in. You can see her bright orange marking is still on her back. After the molt it turned white which means she is finally full grown.

I decided to let her out of the cricket enclosure a bit for some exercise.

These daring jumping spiders are pretty tame if you know how to handle them.

You have to let them jump from hand to hand until they get used to you.

Once they are used to you they stop hopping and start crawling more.

They constantly look around for potential prey and for different things to jump on.

Next time I bring her out I'll try and take some video. I was hoping to get her to pose on a poinsetta leaf but she was still too hoppy. Maybe next time I'll also see if she dances in front of a mirror, they react funny to their own reflection.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)