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Maybe fuzzy jumping spider? It’s been living in my bathroom for about 1 1/2 months. I’ve named him Peter. He/she is awesome. Green eyes, orangish spot on back, not sure how long they live or what they eat, but we’ve fed him bugs and I think I’ve seen him drink drops of water. I’ve taken him to work a couple of times to show the kids ( I’m a pediatric RN). I’d like more info on it. Thanks!
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- Submitted: Apr 13, 2019
- Photographed: Mar 10, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Kansas City , Kansas, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
- Found in web?: No
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Anyone know what kind of spider this is or if it’s poisonous? I’m not worried about being bitten. Just wondering. He lives in my bathroom. A free range spider like my chickens…
All spiders have venom, but most, in not all jumping spiders, have a bite no worse than a bee sting. a lot of the time their fangs can’t even penetrate our skin, and if they do, they may give a “dry bite”, meaning they didn’t inject venom when they bit.
Much like BugmanDan said, many jumping spiders can be friendly and curious, depending on the individual. I own around 35 jumping spiders myself!
Been my observation jumpers have very impressive fangs and the mouth parts to get them into skin. Even dry bites, you are likely to feel the pin poke. Only bitten by one jumper, a P.johnsoni, my attempt to contain her in my hand, trapped her between fingers. Actually watched her biting. Certainly felt it but nothing I couldn’t endure. Left an itchy red spot for a few hours and gone by days end. My bad, but sure wanted to keep her, hadn’t seen one in the desert before and a good decade since the last one, best I compare to… Read more »
Hi. Peter is a jumping spider, probably Phidippus audax from the sound of it. The bold jumping spider. Still not full grown, the orange will turn white when he matures. These are not dangerous at all, even people friendly, very popular pets. Slowly put a finger near him, he may jump onto your finger, crawl on your hand and scope you out. The teal green you see are Peters mouth parts, his eyes are black. Done playing with him you can put him back to eat flies and bugs in your bathroom. Just beware, he may get around unnoticed so… Read more »
And keep him away from your chickens. A great thing about free range poultry is that the birds eat ticks, which are arachnids.
Our chickens would eat any arthropod they saw. the ducks were worse,fighting over the big slugs.
When I was a kid we threw big earthworms into the coops to get a chicken tug-of-war going. Probably not as gross as a Slug Tug.