VERY COLORFUL/Male Phidippus Audax+his killed mate/

[TheHolyArachnid]

I just got one of these guys, I absolutely LOVE jumping spiders
How do you tell male from female with them?

All male spider have these sex organs called pedipalps. They use these to fertilize female spiders.
The picture below shows a male spider's pedipalp zoomed in.


Sexing jumping spiders are quite easy, males have larger muscular legs while females have smaller less muscular legs.
Female jumping spiders usually are fat(look well fed) while males are skinny. The easiest way of sexing these spiders is looking at their pedipalps, males have enormous pedipalps while females have very skinny and small ones. Male spiders are almost ALWAYS smaller than females.


@always4lora he was about an inch long in these pictures, he is now a little over an inch.

 

[FishFreak95]

Wow. Amazing project. I just looked up daring jumping spider, and that guy has Awesome color. Have you tried this with more colorful species?
Theres some species of jumping spider that has some nice orange/red around here. I might want to try it!
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[TheHolyArachnid]

Wow. Amazing project. I just looked up daring jumping spider, and that guy has Awesome color. Have you tried this with more colorful species?
Theres some species of jumping spider that has some nice orange/red around here. I might want to try it!
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I have tried it on regal jumping spiders and apache jumping spiders. Though they all look the same whenever I breed them.

lol yeah, my male daring jumping spider is WAY TOO colorful for being a daring jumper.

The red/orange ones you find are probably apache jumpers. One of my favorites! Here are some photo's of them.
Female apache jumpers can be orange or brown, sometimes green(below is female).


Male apache jumpers are red(below is a male).

 

[FishFreak95]

I know this is like a sin in the arachnid world, but have you ever thought about hybridizing them. I mean it wouldn't hurt anything to try I knew a guy who got banned from an arachnid forum because he made a few tarantula hybrids. Lol.

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[TheHolyArachnid]

I know this is like a sin in the arachnid world, but have you ever thought about hybridizing them. I mean it wouldn't hurt anything to try I knew a guy who got banned from an arachnid forum because he made a few tarantula hybrids. Lol.

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You know I never really tried with arachnids. I have a friend who cross bred petstore crickets with regular black field crickets it was wicked cool.

Just take a look these guys, definitely hybrids.



I will definitely try hybridizing jumping spiders, it would be neat.

 

[Death Pony]

It's nearly impossible to hybridize spiders. Their mating rituals are so complex that one of them usually ends up eating the other out of frustration, just like some people.

I love jumpers, so inquisitive and comical. They're like little teddy bears. I've seen some take down flies twice their size, as seen here;

Ambitious Spider by Wire Man, on Flickr

 

[TheHolyArachnid]

It's nearly impossible to hybridize spiders. Their mating rituals are so complex that one of them usually ends up eating the other out of frustration, just like some people.

I love jumpers, so inquisitive and comical. They're like little teddy bears. I've seen some take down flies twice their size, as seen here;

Ambitious Spider by Wire Man, on Flickr

'Nearly' impossible? Depends on the individual spider itself. I have seen some female daring jumpers that will let ANY male mate with her just in seconds. I have also seen some horny little apache male jumpers, it is possible but very difficult to cross breed spiders. If crickets can hybridize, so can spiders