Raising jumping spider spiderlings from an egg sac is one of the most rewarding projects in the hobby and one of the most logistically...
Hydration is the husbandry parameter that quietly kills more captive jumping spiders than any other, including in collections kept by experienced keepers. Salticids drink...
Why your jumping spider has stopped eating
A jumping spider that refuses food is almost never an emergency. In the keepers we hear from most,...
Breeding jumping spiders is one of the more accessible projects in the invertebrate hobby, but it carries real welfare weight: a single successful Phidippus...
Sexing a jumping spider reliably comes down to one question: are the pedipalps slender like miniature legs, or bulbous like tiny boxing gloves? That...
Most pet jumping spiders live one to three years in captivity, with female Phidippus regius reaching the upper end of that range and males...
Can You Safely Handle a Jumping Spider?
Yes, but on the spider’s terms, not yours. Jumping spiders are among the most handleable arachnids in the...
Jumping spider enrichment is the deliberate design of an enclosure and a care routine that gives this highly visual, cognitively complex predator opportunities to...
Understanding Jumping Spider Body Language
Jumping spiders communicate almost entirely through visual posture and substrate vibration, and every gesture you see has a specific meaning....
Parasites are one of the few welfare topics in jumping spider keeping where prompt action genuinely changes the outcome, and one of the few...