Unidentified

Picture ID 134066

Picture of unidentified spider

Comments & ID Thoughts

this is a phidippus audax i found and kept as a pet.

i found out she was female after she laid an egg sac in her habitat.

  • Submitted by: 
    bovache
  • Submitted: Feb 5, 2021
  • Photographed: Sep 9, 2020
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: Grapevine, Texas, United States
  • Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
  • Found in web?: No
  • Attributes:
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TangledWeb

She’s cute! I found a female at my front door too. She lives under the siding. Wood love to see pics of baby Bold Jumpers! I don’t know if female spiders still make egg sacks if they didn’t mate, in the way birds lay unfertilized eggs. Female spiders can store semen for a long time then use it to coat and fertilize the eggs while they oviposit the eggs into the sac.

TangledWeb

I googled it, yes female spiders make egg sacs regardless of whether they ever mated. Hopefully you have spiderlings coming your way.

TangledWeb

Sounds wise! The hatchlings are tiny and escape indoors easily. The easiest way I’ve found to find Jumping Spiders is to get a plastic yard waste barrel (trash can) and fill it with brush from the ground in thin forest near tall grass. Cut some low tree branches too. I do that to remove invasive species of plants, like Burning Bush and Barberry. The Jumping Spiders quickly rise to the top to escape. They tend to eat each other in the process too. In the early 1900s spider researchers used white bedsheets and piled the brush in the center to… Read more »