Here's some cool videos about jumping spiders

I enjoy watching Youtube videos and in fact, too many of them. But most of them are videos about spiders, like tarantulas and jumping spiders. A good channel for any spider enthusiast is Bob the Spider Hunter on Youtube. He covers all sorts of things about spiders and has many videos about jumping spiders. When they are out, he catches them and talks about them. He also really enjoys other spiders, like orb weavers, wolf spiders, and many others. He also has a tarantula, although you don't get to see it very much. He seems to like the jumping spiders the most (I haven't found any other spider that is so awesome! :) ) as his channel has more videos about jumping spiders and his experiences with them. I usually get my ideas and information from them and they are helping a lot. He has videos on how to care for them (other spiders included), spiderlings, mating, food--pretty much everything about them. Some of them are the his Jumping Spiders Part (1-3) with Bob, the spider hunter. I recommend them all in this series. He also covers what males and females do in his 2 video series Girl meets Boy! These are pretty entertaining videos with narrating subtitles at the bottom along with some romantic music. The second video is pretty funny. (A bit of caution is suggested on the second one especially for young children.) You will find in some videos that he posted later showed that both matings were successful and that they got eggs sacks. All four spiders are Phiddipus Audax in these videos as he will talk about.

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Update on Marbles

Marbles, my pet female Phiddipus Audax jumping spider is doing well so far. She is still, well, as far as I can tell, happy in her enclosure. She can always see me when I come into the room and she will run backwards, upside down, fall off her ceiling, and run for her overturned cup bottom before I can get within two feet of her. That is the awesome eye sight of the jumping spider at work for ya, that's for sure. Then there are days like today, when she sees me and just turns her whole body or cocks her head to one side or the other and waits for me to open the top so she can try to make a break for it. I just blow a little bit on her and she usually jumps in such a goofy way that she lands on her back and then falls to the bottom of her cage. She then ran to the side so she could look up at me and just sat there. It is fun to do and really she is okay when she falls. They are small enough and light enough that a fall of more than a few feet without a safety line wont hurt them.
I hope to get a feeding video of her tomorrow, and I will post that as soon as I can. I want to make sure that she gets a cricket before I leave on vacation so that it will last her the whole time. On Friday, class Christmas parties will be going on and I will most likely forget about her and I really don't want to do that. I can't guarantee that she will eat right away tomorrow, so if she does, I will post a video. If not, I won't. (I'll just leave the cricket in there with her anyway. She will eat in a day or two after it being in there.) And hopefully, the cricket will be in a spot where she will actually jump on the cricket and not just creep up on it and then pounce the shortest possible distance. It is cool to see, but a big, deadly, accurate jump is so much more entertaining. Haha.

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Do You Have a Favorite Tarantula? What is it?

As you might know, especially from my previous post, I love tarantulas. I really don't know why, but I just do. Maybe it's all that fuzz covering them or maybe it is because they have eight legs and are bigger versions of the other spiders that I really like. Either way, they are really awesome and there are a couple that I would love to tell you about. And yes, I do have more than one "favorite". Many of them are just the color combinations and others are the size and the more mellow nature of the tarantula's species. I am already making plans on what tarantulas I will be getting in the future and which ones I will stay away from, which happen to be the faster, more venomous ones. Many of them are very pretty, but if they get away, Look out! They can't kill you, but for the Poecilotheria species, they have a bite that is very, very painful and at times, it will probably make you wish you were going to die than not. There is a few videos of Rob C., who has been tagged by a couple of his Poecilotheria spiders before and wasn't doing too good for a few days. You must remember, (even more so with species like these), handle tarantulas with care. Any tarantula, even the calmest, nicest ones out there, can still bit you if they feel they need to. So please treat them with respect. Rob wasn't treating his spiders in any way that could harm them. He was trying to mate a male and female and the female went after the male. Rob tried to intervene and the female got his wrist. (It wasn't really a smart thing to do, but he loves his spiders so much that he is willing to risk the bite to save the other one, if possible.)
So, now to my personal favorites. I really like the Brachypelma species, like the B. Emilia, the Smithi, Boehmei, and Auratum. The colors is what really draws me to them. The reds, oranges, yellows, whites, and browns are just stunning, especially when you have a freshly molted tarantula. The Brachypelmas also tend to be a bit more docile than most other tarantula species and the famous B. Smithi (Mexican Red Knee) is a really popular choice among beginners and experts. However, like most other Brachys, they tend to flick hairs like crazy and some individuals are horrible. Each spider will react differently to you when you get near it, but Brachypelmas are pretty well know for this. Any tarantula found in the Americas, North, Central, and South, tend to be hair flickers with less potent venom. They also tend to be slower and less willing to bite. Other tarantulas found mostly in the Asias are fast, and their venom is quite potent. However, they don't kick hairs.

Another favorite species of mine is the Poecilotheria. They are very, very beautiful and are really fun to look at. Like the P. Metallica. It is a tarantula with an amazing dark blue color pattern with the yellow under their leg joints that are typical with Pokies. I think this is the prettiest tarantula you will ever see. When I first sawa  picture of one, I thought it was photoshopped. However, upon more research, I found out that it was indeed a real tarantula and a real beauty at that. These are however from the Poecilotheria species which means that they are very fast, their venom is very potent, and they are expensive! I have seen prices for baby 1/4 inch slings for over $200. And the full grown 6 inch females are more than double that! Yeah, really pricey for something so pretty. I however, wouldn't want to own one mainly because if it escaped, it would be hard to capture without getting bitten or having it bite one of my other pets. Yep, I'll let other people have them and I'll enjoy them on Youtube. Other really nice ones are the Ornata, Fasciata, Miranda, Regalis, and Subfusca.

And my most favorite tarantula is the Euathlus sp. Red, which is also known as the sp. Orange or Yellow. It's really the exact same tarantula, but some are more red, orange, or yellow depending on the individual spider. These are known to be the best beginner tarantula because they are really gentle for those of us who like to handle them and their venom is very weak and won't hurt humans. They do have urticating hairs because they are found in Chile and like I said above, if they are found in the Americas, they will have these hairs. Another awesome thing about them is that they only grow to 3 to 3.5 inches in leg span. So they are really quite small compared to other tarantulas which for some people, really like to have a small spider. They are also known to be very friendly and any time their own opens the cage, the tarantula immediately starts to walk out and act as if it wants to be handled. It is still up for debate on whether tarantulas like to be handled and if it is good for them, but so far, these little guys tend to "like" the attention.You can get an off one that will deffensive towards you when you want to handle it and you should just leave it be. But over all, they are said to be awesome for the beginner. Their only downside is that because they are so small, they eat very little and tend to eat every couple months instead of weeks like bigger sized tarantulas.

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Awesome Youtube Channels for the Tarantula Addict!

I love tarantulas. They are just so fascinating to me. I would love to have one (actually, more :) ), but my parents don't like them and so I am going to have to live without them. But they haven't said anything about me watching Youtube videos on them. In fact, they don't mind it and it allows me to enjoy them at someone else's expense. My favorite channel for tarantulas is Jon3800. He is one of the top followed tarantula keepers in the world next to Rob C. or Tarantulaguy1976, especially in the USA and Canada. They are both highly respected by the Youtube community and many people go to them (including me, many times) for information about how to care for them, the different types and if they are good as pets, for the noobs or the experts and so on. I have watched almost all of their videos from both channels, Jon3800 more than Rob C as Rob is currently in the process of building a new home (at least he was the last time I checked) and hasn't really had a chance to make any new videos on his tarantulas. If anybody is interested in getting a tarantula or getting ready to add another one to your collection, these guys are who I would go to.
Watch many of their videos and get a feel for what tarantula keeping is all about. Jon3800 has videos on many of the different species that he currently has and makes what he calls "Mythbuster" videos where he talks about a certain tarantula or tarantula species. These are usually his more interesting videos, and they are filled with almost all of the information to you need to know about a tarantula. However, I wouldn't recommend skipping his other videos either, as he will sometimes add to or update bits and pieces of his "mythbusters" from time to time and you most likely won't want to miss out on what he has to say.
Another greatly respected tarantula keeper is in the UK and he goes by Dan Oakley. I haven't seen as many of his videos as I have Jon's and Rob's, but he has been referred to by Jon3800 a few times and many other people love his videos too. I think you couldn't go wrong if you follow him.
These guys are the "go-to" people and if you have any questions concerning tarantulas, they would be the people to search for and ask. I don't usually trust the pet store sites as much as they do tend to give you false information more often than not as I have heard from other people's experiences.

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UPDATE: Jon 3800 also has feeding videos about twice a month as he all of his tarantulas, scorpions, and yes! jumping spiders! These are always worth checking out. 

More pictures of Marbles.

Here are some more pictures, again taken with my iPod Touch. Marbles was in a bit of a frantic mode today as she was trying her best to hide from me. What I got here isn't too bad. 

Here is her kritter keeper. The little black dot in the very bottom right is her. There will be some science equipment in the background as there really wasn't any good place to put her cage. 

Whenever I take pictures, she has to turn and stare. I was hoping to get a good shot of the top of her abdomen so you could see her markings. 

I'm not sure if she was getting ready to jump or what, but her front legs are up. Maybe she's trying to wave! :)

Of course, she finally got scared and ran to hide under the styrofoam ring, but her curiosity got the better of her and she had to see what I was up too. :)

This one is through the side of the cage. She had turned around after the previous picture because of the flash and is hanging upside down waiting for me to go away. 

Well, she is on the other side of her cup ring and is really wanting me to leave. Haha. At least she was willing. 

Thanks for checking this post out and I hoped you enjoyed the pictures. If you have any suggestions, comments, or questions, please feel free to leave them below and I will try to get back to you as soon as I can. 

I hope to get some pictures of her in my hand sometime, but she is really fast. I'm usually lucky to get the shots that I am getting.

She's back!

Marbles is back in her cage. My teacher found her today and put her back in her critter keeper. She is in worse condition than I thought as her abdomen is much smaller than I thought it was when I saw her the other day. I'm just glad that she is still alive and of course, throwing threat postures at the pencil. Luckily not my fingers, but she just doesn't like the pencil. And it is too bad as it is really helpful to have something small enough it fit into her cage and move her around a bit. But I guess that I have invaded her space too much with it and I can't blame her for getting upset. I'm going to have to remember to leave her alone a lot more. I guess I'm really happy she is back. Haha. I am amazed that she is back as soon as she is. Maybe she decided to take her thanksgiving break sooner than I did.

Daniel Jones has been wanting more pictures of her and her enclosure. I'll try to get some up for him and the rest of you to enjoy pretty soon. 

Marbles update!

Well, it is December 2, 2013 and I spotted Marbles today in the science lab! A friend of mine and I tried to capture her, but she ran back under the rail in the sliding window. She seems to be fine for the most part and her abdomen appeared to be full. I was hoping to put her back in the cage, but I will have to wait for a while until she comes back out into a more open area to catch her. I will let you know when I see her next and if I am able to capture her again.

Marbles is gone!

Well, I was hoping against hope that this wouldn't happen, but it did. Marbles, my female Phiddipus Audax jumping spider, is gone. I was going to do this on the previous post, but I decided against it. Luckily, this doesn't mean dead, but she is no longer in her little critter keeper. My teacher found her lid slightly ajar the other morning with her obviously not there. She seemed pretty happy in there. Now being a spider, should would have reasons to leave that I, a human, wouldn't understand, but she did have it pretty good in there. She had a pretty nice cricket once a week, some water, and a few places to hide and be a jumping spider. I don't really get why she would want to leave. I don't really know what to do at the moment as she could pretty much be anywhere in the science lab or for that matter, my school. She does have more than plenty of spaces to hide out, but there are only other spiders for food and I know that most jumping spiders can get other spiders if they are desperate enough. I just hope she is okay and will turn up in a few months so I can put her back. But if I never see her again, that is that. Farewell Marbles! You will be missed! (You can find pictures of her on my previous post.)

Pictures of my female Phiddipus Audax, Marbles.

She is doing pretty well so far. These aren't the best, as they were shot with my iPod Touch, but that is what has been available to me. She is pretty awesome.

You will see that the white thing that Marbles is sitting on is a cut up Styrofoam cup that has been put together with some pieces of wood. Sorry these weren't up sooner.

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The Peacock Spider

The Peacock Spider is a jumping spider. Of course, it is probably the most awesome jumping spider in the world. (And it is found only in Australia). Now, you must be wondering what a peacock spider is, right? If you think about it, it's name suggests what it is. And it is obviously a jumping spider, but what it can do is not done by any other spider or any other creature but the peacock itself. Peacock spiders obviously need to find a mate and the only way jumping spiders get mates is to try to attract their attention. The way male jumping spiders get a females attention is by taking their front legs and waving them around. They also vibrate their bodies which the females pick up on. When a male runs into another male, they will pretty much do what rams or sheep do; butt their faces into each other with their legs raised to see who is bigger. They do this a few times, and then they kind of fight a little until the smaller spider leaves. The bigger one keeps on going about life, as usual. And the peacock spiders do the same thing. But they also do what peacocks do; they raise their feathers and spread them out (or abdomens in this case and hair) and they dance around a bit to get the attention of the female. They do this dance until the female decides that the male can mate with her. This will usually last just a moment before the male must jump away as fast as he can, or the female will eat him, like all other spiders.

It is very entertaining to watch them dance around like they do. Here is a video that shows them doing the courtship dance by Jurgen Otto (I highly recommend watching all of the other videos too). He is the only photographer in the world to have photographed and taken video of them. And this is his Flikr page to see all of his pictures! If you have seen them before, you will know how small they are. They are not your average sized jumping spider which is about 5 cm, but they are about 4 to 5 mm in size! Yes! Very small! How he does the amazing videos while keeping track of them when they jump away is beyond me. Most jumping spiders don't like to be played with or have humans around too much as I learned this recently while my teacher and I took pictures of my pet. It wouldn't sit still for anything. So I can imagine that it takes him several weeks before he can get enough for a six minute video.

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Update on my pet Phiddipus Audax

Within the last few days, I have kept the little female Phiddipus Audax in a small critter keeper cage with a small styrofoam cup cut into a few pieces for something to climb on with some small pieces of wood to hold it together. My teacher was a bit concerned that it could climb out of the top holes in the stock cage cover, so we are using a semi-clear piece of plastic over the top of it for the cage and so far it is working out really well. There are plans to make it a little more permanent, but for the time being, the spider seems to be really happy in it and it is constantly making little nests around the corners. I wish she would make her nesting sites at the bottom or under the over-turned bottom piece of cup. Every time I go to remove the cover, I am pulling her nest apart. It is an irritating problem for me as I don't want to upset her and I know that it doesn't really help her out any. Luckly, she is still calm and pleasant to handle and let jump around on the table and back and forth from her cage. I feed her a small cricket that is usually a little bit bigger than her or about the same size every few days. So far I haven't been able to witness her eat the cricket, but when I get to school the next day, I will go in and check on her and the cricket's remains are laying in the bottom of the cage and her abdomen is fuller than it was the previous day. So I am glad that she is eating just fine and hopefully, she will live for a while. She still has her orange markings on her back, so I am pretty sure that she is pretty young still. Overall, she is fun to watch climb around in her cage and so far seems to enjoy it. I know I am!

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I will try to post some pictures that my teacher took with a macro lense soon! They took a while to get as the jumping spider wouldn't sit still for more than a few seconds at a time.

I also don't have a name for her yet either. If anybody has any suggestions, tell me what you think. I was personally thinking Marbles, but that could change if anything else comes along that I like better.

Video Games with Spiders are Freaky- For the Most Part

In my tech class, we have been learning about video games. We have to write about video games that have something to do with our blog topic. Of course, spiders have been made out by movies and many video games to be scary. This hasn't helped spiders as animals at all. It makes people see the horrific "spider" in the game or movie and makes them think that they are just as bad or worse in real life. Yep, they really are freaky in games, and here is one person's top 10 list of them. I have never played any of the games he mentions, but after reading his description of them, I am glad that I am not writing this at night. It is more like noon, but that is beside the point. Many of the spiders aren't really spiders, but weird, creepy, things that are supposed to look like spiders and they aren't even close to spiders. Some games do have actual spiders in them, but the others are just freak creatures that to me are scary, but pointless. And they aren't helping people out with their opinions on the real creatures.

Another game with spiders that hurt you is Minecraft. This is one of my personal favorite games to play and I really enjoy many of it's variants, like Feed the Beast and Tekkit. As many people know, the game is very fun to play and the world is made up of blocks, which are made of blocks. Nothing is round. Everything, including the spiders, are square-ish. Everything that is supposed to look like what it is, does look pretty good. But they use little tiny squares to make up the different parts. But they are scary and they have red eyes and make noises. They are fast and when they bite you, you die pretty quickly. Unless you have an armor suit on, you should stay away from the spiders as much as possible. And the other mobs too, but the spiders are pretty bad. There is also the spider jockey, which is a skeleton with the usual bow and arrow ridding a spider. They are very deadly, as the skeleton can hit you from a ways a way and it has the speed and agility of the spider.

Other games like to make the spiders the good guys, like this one and I like these games. In this game, a scientist has developed this gear that lets him control a spider. Of course, there are bad guys who don't like this and they kill the scientist and take his mind control equipment. Even though he is dead, his conscience is still in the little spider and the little spider goes after the bad guys to get the equipment and his life back. You are taken throughout the game in 32 different dangerous levels. There are falling beakers, cybornetic hornets to mechanical arms and bomb-dropping bats, and when you are only an inch tall, you could die from just about anything.

I like spiders and think in real life, they are really cool. However, the movie and video game makers rely on people's reactions to spiders to make them scary and this is how they sell their games. I don't like them and most of them are too violent for me to begin with. That and my parents don't like violent games either. It is interesting to see what these people come up with for "spiders", but I think they are a waste of time, except Minecraft. That is a game that I will play whether it has spiders in it or not.

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The awesome background is a Peacock Spider by Jurgen Otto.

Jumping spiders as pets

Well, I don't really have a pet at home, but at school, I have found a few jumping spiders hanging out on the walls and indoors, like in our science lab. They are everywhere, and even though almost all of my classmates don't like them and freak out when they see them, I enjoy them and end up handling them and putting them in temporary containers for a while. Currently, I have a suspected female Phiddipus Audax who is still fairly young as she still has her orange markings. I have her inside an upside down cup in our science lab on the counter. It isn't very big, so I shouldn't keep her for much longer as there isn't a whole lot of room in there for her to move about. I feed her crickets every couple days (my teacher has lots of other critters that eat crickets too) and she is housed near a sink, so I put my finger under the water and then drip a little water in the cup for her. So far, she has been eating and drinking just fine and sadly, I haven't been able to witness her catch her prey. I have seen jumping spiders pounce on their food on Youtube videos, but to see it in real life is much more exciting.

My teacher also has a couple black widows in a flask with a piece of tape over it and a few days ago, we tested to see if a jumping spider would kill a black widow. I have heard that it is possible, but didn't know before. I also know that they do kill wolf spiders and brown recluse spiders, and I have seen it happen. So we put the jumper in with the widows and waited for a long time for something to happen. Both the widows were in the bottom of the flask and the jumper stayed at the top and every once in a while, she would crawl down to the bottom and watch the widows. After a while, the smaller widow of the two managed to create a web ladder to the top where the jumper was. And of course, the jumper got caught in the webbing and was starting to get rapped up. I was a bit upset and felt that I had to do something about it. I found a piece of steel wire that was just small enough to fit through the air holes in the tape and I managed to get the widow to go to the bottom and I pulled the tape up and put the wire in front of the jumper. It grabbed the wire with its legs and fangs. I was amazed at how much gripping power it had with it's fangs. Unfortunately, the wire kept slipping out of its mouth and I kept trying again and again. I finally got the jumping spider out and covered the top up again just as the smaller widow came back to the top again. I left the jumping spider alone in it's over turned cup for the rest of the day. I happen to be a teacher's kid, so I stay after school for a few hours everyday and I was able to see the jumping spider then. It had unrapped its self and was sitting in the bottom of the cup. And it was fine. Amazingly, the black widow hadn't bitten the jumper. It is now a week later and that jumper is still sitting in its over turned cup chasing crickets and just hanging out. Now what we did here is not really recommended to do to your pet jumping spider. I think that they are really neat spiders and they shouldn't be just thrown into a death trap.

I really like them and even though I'm not allowed to keep them at home, my teacher so far has allowed me to keep one in the science lab next to his class room and I hope that it will get to stay a while. I also hope to find it a bigger home, as the cup it is in is too small for it. My teacher hopes that the black widows that he is keeping will die sooner or later and hopefully we can use that flask for the jumping spider and it can sit on the counter with all of his other cool creatures so long as he doesn't need it for any science experiments. This page shows you how to take care of jumping spiders. The person writting about them really seems to know what they are doing and I think that they have nailed the "how tos", like how to handle them, their habits and their temperaments. If you have the intentions in capturing one and need some good ideas of what to do, this is the page to go looking for ideas. I have read it a few times and I like it.


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Spiders indoors. Yay!

When you see a spider in your house, especially during this time of year, it is most likely that it is not inside because it is cold out and it wants to be warm. That spider has been in your house for about a year, from the time it hatched out of it's egg to it's full grown one inch leg span now. And it is also most likely that it is a male spider looking for a female. Most female spiders will lay an egg sac in the fall months and die. Almost all spiders you find outside, stay outside. Very few of them will come indoors where it is warm because they die before it gets too cold. Very few of the spiders you find inside have been outdoors, residing in your walls or under the funiture that hasn't been moved for the last six years in your living room. And if you are the person to have the nerves to get near them to move them outside, you really aren't doing them any favors. You may think so based on your own ideas that it will be happier outside because there are more things that spiders like to do outside and you will be happier because it isn't near you anymore. They are inside because their parents were inside and when they hatched, they were inside from the beginning and don't know anything else. And many spiders are designed for dark, quiet places where there is little food and water. When they are in the crawl space under your house, they are catching all of the bugs and other spiders under there. So they are perfectly happy there and they are set up for it. So you may ask: Why did it come out if it was so happy down there? Well, if it is fall time when you are reading this, it is pretty much the time where males spiders go looking for females and they most likely haven't found a suitable female in the boards in the walls where they are, so they go roaming until they find a female. In some other occasions, they will come out when they haven't found any bugs or water where they were, and so they came out to find it. You found it by accident and the reason it ran fast was because it saw you and wanted to get away from you as fast as you were trying to get away from it or kill it. They don't mean any harm and are just living their lives like any other creature is. They should be left alone if they are near a place that they can get away from you and hide. They don't like you anymore than you do, so leave them be.

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What do you do when you see a spider?

When you see a spider, what do you do? Do you scream or do you walk away. Or are you like me and stand there and stare at it? And especially if it's a jumping spider, do you try to figure out how to get it into your hands? Im obviously the latter, but many people are the former. When they see it, they either scream and destroy it or they just ignore it. I would prefer that they just ignore it, but many people just don't like them. And why? For many, it is because they are ugly and just plain creepy. They think that something with more than four legs is an alien out to get them and if it isn't removed from the premises, it will over take them over night. Right? Right. They do overtake buildings that aren't well kept and for the most part, if you find one, there are plenty more around. And to some degree, this is really actually quite good. They eat bugs. Lots of them, and the more spiders, the less bugs. If you were to remove every spider in the world, there would be so many bugs that we would die within a few years. That is how important spiders are, even the ones that can make us really sick. It is estimated that in one acre in a meadow, there are about two to three million spiders. In rain forests and wetlands, there are many more.
Spiders are the dominant terrestrial predators on this planet. There are over 30,000 known species and counting. They eat so many bugs a day. Even though one spider usually eats one or two bugs every couple of days, the several trillions add up. And over time, and with all of these spiders combined, they eat over 1.8 billion pounds of food each day! That doesn't really sound like much, but if you think about it, all the little bugs that you find in webs around your house (if you let them) would really be buzzing around annoying the day lights out of you. So spiders really aren't bad and you just have to learn that they are there for a reason and without them, our world definitely wouldn't be very pretty.
So the next time you see a spider and want to destroy it, I would encourage you to move it somewhere else where it won't bother you. And remember that you are a lot bigger than it is and it is much more scared of you than you are of it. Now if you do run across something like a black widow or brown recluse, I would recommend that if you can't get it into something it can't crawl out of and be easily and safely transported away from where you and other people are, I would kill it as quickly as I could. I know that I am contradicting myself, but you really don't want to get bit by one. People have been known to have died from bites from both spiders. But if it is another spider of some sort that isn't harmful to you, leave it alone. It's mostly trying to find a place to hide and find more bugs to eat.

What do you do with spiders when you see them? Please feel free to comment and follow this blog! I'm sure some of my friends would also appreciate your attention as well!

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Some really cool Spiders

Hey guys. Sorry for posting such a late blog. I was planning on posting something on this last Thursday or Friday, but that obviously never happened. I was of course really busy with school work and didn't have the time to post something. But now I do have some time and have been looking for something interesting to talk about.
I went to Google, and typed cool spiders into my search box. As I started to scan through the listings from Google, I saw the pictures, which had some interesting spiders, but I kept going to the first thing. Top 10 Bizarre Spiders. I clicked on it and it took me to this page. They really have pointed out some really cool spiders and some really bizarre ones at that. Of course, my favorites are the jumping spiders, like the Bagheera kiplingi, which is pretty much a vegetarian spider! Who knew that was possible, right? I think the most interesting one is the Argyrodes colubrinus. It is like a twig and from some pictures that I have seen of them, they really do look like a stick or something. To me they look more like a walking stick, but then again they do have eight legs. They also talk about my personal favorite Peacock Spider, which of course is a jumping spider. I will end up talking about them in a future blog. The Myrmarachne plataleoides is a really cool spider also, as it mimics ants. And really dangerous ants. If you look at them, they do really look like ants that are very harmful to humans. The good part is that these spiders aren't harmful to us at all, just like other jumping spiders. They have a pretty good chance of survival because the ants that they are mimicking are pretty aggressive and have a nasty bite, so most animals avoid them as much as possible. I think that is a pretty good defense mechanism. They don't really have to do much to be left alone.

Have you found any spiders that would fit in with these "bizarre" spiders? Which one is your favorite? Please feel free to leave comments and follow this blog.

I would also like for you to check out the blogs of my friends. They are pretty cool and I know they would appreciate the attention.

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Jumping SPiDER says hello

Hey guys and girls! How's it going? This is Jumping SPiDER and I am really excited to start this blog! As you probably can tell, I love spiders. I have always had a passion for them, which has been as long as I can remember. As you might be able to tell, the jumping spider is my favorite out of all spiders.

For many people, jumping spiders are "cute" and "adorable" and I wouldn't necessarily say that they are, but I would agree that there is something different about them in there looks and behavior that makes them so interesting. One thing that is really amazing about them is their amazing hunting skills. And of course, my favorite part about them is their jumping capabilities, where many of them can jump around twenty times their own body length. And for something this small, a one foot jumping distance is pretty impressive. They also have these awesome eyes that allow them to see their prey and kill it. Many people have claimed their sight to be similar to that of humans, but at a much smaller scale.

Handling them is a lot of fun. They seem to be very intelligent, and when crawling up my arms or sitting on my hands, they look at me with their little eyes as if they are trying to figure out how to get to my face. I don’t mind having them in my hands or on my arms, but I really don’t want them on my face, like in my eyes or up my nose. And worst yet, my mouth. They do certainly seem to be curious and I can never get enough of them. They are my most favorite spider and I usually try to find them around the house or at my school where it seems that there are more of them, which is better, right?

 So what kind of spiders do you like? Do you even like spiders at all?  I'd like to know what you think. 

If you would like to follow me, I would really appreciate it. And if spiders aren't your thing, and you don't really want to follow, no offense taken. I can understand, as many people I know really don't like them either. 

I would also appreciate it if you would go check out my friends' blogs and follow them! I think they would really appreciate it too!
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