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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. 6-7-09 Update : Bitsy's first brood are 1st Instars now and moving around. I'm still waiting for my new camera lens to get some shots of the slings. Itsy's eggs have hatched as well. I'm not %100 sure, but Bitsy's 2nd nest might've hatched - looks a little bit darker in there.. Good thing I bought 24 more vials today. I'm gonna be knee-high in new spiders. XD

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Before people get all negative again, this is NOT a black widow and it's not dangerous! She's a harmless jumping spider(my brother said it was on steroids when he saw. She's 3 times bigger than the zebra jumpers we usually get). This is one of two female jumping spiders of this kind I found under broken cement around the backyard. I was trying to get her to jump on my finger like she did earlier but she wasn't cooperating on camera. Tried slipping into my jacket pocket after this was taken ...

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my new camera lens to get some shots of the slings. Itsy's eggs have hatched as well. I'm not %100 sure, but Bitsy's 2nd nest might've hatched - looks a little bit darker in there.. Good thing I bought 24 more vials today. I'm gonna be knee-high in new spiders. XD ... jumping Johnson spider female Bitsy Phidippus johnsoni salticidae 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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1st Instars now and moving around. I'm still waiting for my new camera lens to get some shots of the slings. Itsy's eggs have hatched as well. I'm not %100 sure, but Bitsy's 2nd nest might've hatched - looks a little bit darker in there.. Good thing I bought 24 more vials today. I'm gonna be knee-high in new spiders. XD ... animals pets arthropods arachnids Johnson jumping spider female salticidae Phidippus johnsoni velvet ant mimic bugs and insects specimen crawling contemplation thinking ...

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brood are 1st Instars now and moving around. I'm still waiting for my new camera lens to get some shots of the slings. Itsy's eggs have hatched as well. I'm not %100 sure, but Bitsy's 2nd nest might've hatched - looks a little bit darker in there.. Good thing I bought 24 more vials today. I'm gonna be knee-high in new spiders. XD ... Johnson jumping spider female threat display defense animals pets nature bugs and insects arachnids arthropods salticidae Phidippus johnsoni velvet ant mimic ...

Bitsy on Vine

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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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