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Here's a short video of Bitsy's second egg sac the night after she passed away from a spider bite. Not even gonna bother counting until they reach 3rd or 4th instar! Okay, next egg sac! ... Bitsy animals nature pets insects and bugs arachnids arthropods salticidae Johnson jumping spiders egg sac hatched spiderlings slings babies silk cocoon California Phidippus johnsoni redback nest web specimens procreation life breeding reproduction
Here's a longer video featuring the two jumping spider nests in different containers. One in the hollowed root is Itsy's, one in the jar is Bitsy's. I have another earlier hatched batch in (2nd instar?) that I'll make a video of next after I do some maintenance. ... animals nature pets insects and bugs arthropods arachnids arachnophobia webbing webs silk cocoon nest egg sac Phidippus johnsoni salticidae Johnson jumping spiders redback California
I started mimicing Bitsy's threat display with the motion of my finger and she actually responded back and only fled when she knew I called her bluff. Very entertaining spiders. ... Johnson jumping spider female threat display defense animals pets nature bugs and insects arachnids arthropods
Bitsy decides to go for a stroll outside her jar. I turned the camera away for a minute to see if I could show you the slings moving, but the quality was too crappy. Bitsy later kept tring to find a launching position to jump on my lens and gave up when her feet kept slipping. XD
Bitsy caught her bottle fly before Itsy got her's (itsy's the one that pounced in the video). Then Bitsy couldn't figure out how she was going to get her cargo up on her nest. XD Bites of Phidippus johnsoni are not generally harmful to humans unless you're very allergic to spiders. Never been bitten, but I imagine it's very itchy like a common sac spider.
make it through to the end of summer and I don't find a male by then, I'm thinking I might buy an inexpensive live specimen from Spider Pharm in Arizona. I'll keep posting a couple of their habits on YouTube and maybe, just maybe, some people won't fear the spider as much. :-) ... jumping Johnson spider female Bitsy Phidippus johnsoni species specimen passiflora vine leaves cute legs eight-legged freaks crawl creeping predators bugs and insects nature animals pets arachnids arthropods velvet ...
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