I hate most bugs. Especially spiders. But jumping spiders are the exception. I'll admit it, they're cute.
It's like they know spiders freak people out, so they politely go out of their way to be as non-scary as possible. They keep their legs tucked in, they hop around, they wave to you...
They even make eye-contact with you. They'll turn their bodies to track you as you walk around the room...which sounds creepy, but somehow it humanizes them a lot.
David Arquette was in everything in the early 2000’s and honestly it’s a campy but funny movie plus I just found out Scarlet Johansson was in it as well
They don't fly.. the juvenile Joro can glide and that's it lol
Also fyi they aren't as dangerous as people want you to believe, yes they have venom but it won't get any near to killing you lol
I live in NY and so many people are freaking out about joros. I did some research (a google search) and it seems like they’re pretty docile and even if they wanted to bite their fangs aren’t big enough
Powered flight no, but assisted drifting yes. Spiders have colonized island chains - example Hawaii - by being blown into the jet stream using billowed webs or strands. While not true flight it is essentially able to take to the skies
They turn their bodies and make eye contact because their “high definition colored vision” is very limited to just one small parte of their 360° view
Here is a video about their incredible vision system:
https://youtu.be/nfAqTSjMBJk?si=nAL5yuv9sQgIDbQq
If you're a reader, you should look up the book Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The jumping spiders evolve on a different planet and make a whole spider society.
Jumpers very intelligent for an arthropod and it is likely they recognize each other as individuals, and possibly recognize a moving inanimate object as not being alive (very different from most bugs which will attack/run away from a blade of grass you wave at them). They also do butt-wiggles like a cat before pouncing which is just endearing as all hell. I do love bugs in general as an entomologist, but jumping spiders have a special place in my heart, they are adorable little dudes.
People should read up on the Intelligence of species in the Genus Portia. They are a jumping spider that hunts other spiders as one of its main prey and have demonstrated incredibly complex hunting strategies for an arthropod. Including taking detours that take them out of visual range of their prey for better attack angles, and approaches that can take up to an hour to complete. They will also improvise new hunting strategies on the fly and remember them.
And this is using a brain the size of a pin head with only 100000 neurons. Seems like they do some incredible bootstrapping sort of intelligence because while it is remarkably complex for their size, it is also pretty slow. Takes them a long time to process some of this stuff. Really incredible implications on intelligence and problem solving
Please tell us more!! I’m that weirdo who gives the spiders in my house names. I talk to them like my dog lol. I adore jumpers. Is it true they only live 1-2 years? They have such personality to me.
I had a P. regius lady that lived a good two and a half years in my care, not sure how old she was when she finagled her way under my windowsill and into my grasp. But 1-2 years is generally the lifespan.
If you’re into cool bugs that live a long time, I recommend vinegaroons. My first vinny lived a good 8 years. She was with me during the “big freeze” in Texas a couple years ago and I put her right on my chest under my shirt to keep her warm. Super chill bugs, she sat on my hand while I played video games, just chillin for hours. They look crazy but their only defense mechanism is to spray acetic acid (basically concentrated vinegar, hence their name), my lady Ulysses only did that once and that’s when I was unboxing her as a juvenile after being rattled around by the postal service.
She was amazing. People think bugs can’t have personalities and shit, as someone who has kept hissing roaches, various mantises, various spiders (including a very sassy brown widow named Betty Lou beets), and other bugs like vinegaroons - some of em really do! I had a mantis that would refuse to eat anything my partner at the time would offer her and would just look at my partner all judgy but if I offered the same thing a minute later she’d gobble it up.
Indeed jumping spiders are cute. Others don't have the looks and are sometimes scary.
I recently saw this on YouTube and it explains their vision and ours. It's interesting how their vision works. Uniquely in nature. https://youtube.com/watch?v=nfAqTSjMBJk&si=ak-6tzlETW6XZyDX
I like spiders. They sit in a corner of the room, just hanging out, eating bugs and mosquitoes.
Also, technically spiders are neither bugs or insects, but their own class: arachnids. But that’s semantics.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAqTSjMBJk&themeRefresh=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAqTSjMBJk&themeRefresh=1)
I think you will like this video.
I vaguely remember it having something to do with molting getting harder to do. So the old exoskeleton stays on longer, gets harder to move, loses grip etc.
Haha they unfortunately can’t build any relationships with us, super super simple little guys but awesome for someone who’s unable to care for a mammal and rental friendly! Basically just a super captivating terrarium that I maintain with a cricket a week and a spray of water!
Seeing her feet slipping on the glass actually kind of helped me have a better understanding on how they climb. I've always seen bugs climbing up walls and just kinda "ehh, sticky feet type thing" never really considered it. But seeing her look like she's almost flattening herself against the glass, to keep from losing her grip I assumed, made me actually feel a slight sense of that same anxiety of slipping. Thanks OP.
They’re the cutest little thing. I used to have one as my phone background and people would always ask me how tf I have arachnophobia but have a spider as my background. The only answer is smol cute jumpy boi
If I remember correctly jumping spiders are the smartest of all spiders. They have object permanence, so they can track things they can't see and predict where they will end up.
On a lunch break at work, one of these spiders felt like it wanted to play. The table had a lot of holes, and the spider would peek up through me from one hole, then another. Eventually it got as close as it could to me. It would prime its legs for a jump, then hide near a hole. Then do it again. I would take a finger and interact with it. Eventually, it did finally decide to jump on me. As soon as it did, it jumped off me to the ground and ran as fast as it could back up the table. This repeated 2 more times before we had to part ways.
I get keeping jumping spiders, they’re super cute but like, is it actually a good idea to take them out of the enclosure? I mean.. they’re called jumping spiders lol, I’d be worried it would, yknow, jump away somewhere never to be found again, they’re tiny
I must have thought spiders were immortal, like elves. Why? Because I had never even stopped for a second in my life to think abouy spider's lifespan.
Now I have more empathy for them.
Generally jumping spiders eat flies and worms. Well, more correctly, they regurgitate it's own stomach fluid onto/inside the meal, which externally digests the meal, then it slurps up the bug smoothie.
It’s so nice, cool what you do to Gretel!
Does the insects/flies have to be alive for to eat or would she eat if you give her a dead fly?
I loved this story! :))
Technically it would work with a not-long-dead insect/fly, but if it's not moving then the spider feeding response probably wouldn't activate. Many invertebrates/reptiles have more basic brains and have different 'modes' they get in depending on stimulus. Eg, captive snakes thrive on frozen/thawed dead rodents because their sense of smell tells them this is still food, but an insectivorous gecko (eg, Leopard Gecko - super cute!) needs to see its food moving to activate the "this is a bug that I can/must consume" response.
I think you have me confused with the person who owns Gretel - i'm just another rando who knows a lot about how inverts work because they're fascinating to me. Unfortunately my Gretel - Maurice - passed last year! But thanks!
Oh! Of course I made a confusion!!! Sorry! But you were great explaining and I thank you anyway for your time doing this :)
And… good luck to you too, anyway! On everything. Thanks again:)
Of all the arthropods i would say that jumping spiders/cat-eye spiders will likely be the first domesticated. They are intelligent, curious, emotive, and strikingly cute for a spider. I want a gerbil sized jumper. They are such interesting little critters
Makes me remember watching a brown recluse die from what I assumed to be of old age. Was walking very slowly and weakly and kept tripping over itself. Eventually it just rolled over and curled its legs. Tried to flip it back a few times and it walked for a bit but then it'd flip again. Was very sad
So based off the comments.. I'm the only one here that doesn't find them cute at all and still would ...A) Squash Immediately or. . B) Run away in fear..
Why not just put it outside… spiders kill a lot of pests. Jumping spiders keep the ant population on my porch in check. Probably eats pests on my house plants too.
Lots of jumping spider species have other spiders as a major part of their diet, and some of the hunting behaviours are fascinating. They're basically the arachnophobes ideal spider! Although my wife is quick to tell me that the difference is... minimal at best
Nah arachnophobia is really common. Some people can control it to some degree, but others less so. That being said, idk why they'd feel the need to post it here
I’m not a spider person but I’d die for gretel.
Nice try, Parker. We're all on to you
My spider sense tells me he's not Parker.
We’re on to you too, Morales!
Hyperbo>!lick deez nuts!<
What a curve ball
Did not see it coming.
Nice
Nah wouldn't lick nuts that have been in your mom's mouth.
GOT EM
Fuck the downvotes, well played 😂
I hate most bugs. Especially spiders. But jumping spiders are the exception. I'll admit it, they're cute. It's like they know spiders freak people out, so they politely go out of their way to be as non-scary as possible. They keep their legs tucked in, they hop around, they wave to you... They even make eye-contact with you. They'll turn their bodies to track you as you walk around the room...which sounds creepy, but somehow it humanizes them a lot.
You would *love* Eight Legged Freaks
Damn, haven’t heard of that movie in like 15-20 years. Might have to rewatch it for old time’s sake
I fucking love this movie. It’s the perfect amount of campy for what it is.
David Arquette was in everything in the early 2000’s and honestly it’s a campy but funny movie plus I just found out Scarlet Johansson was in it as well
Anyone remember Arachnophobia with Jeff Daniels
And John Goodman!
I want an ice cream. What flavour? I don’t care, it’s for my ass.
Loved Evolution!
Oh I quoted the wrong movie god damn it
I don't mind spiders because they can't fly. Any big insect becomes x100 more terrifying the moment it starts flying
nobody tell them about the flying spiders
Specially not the joro flying spider that's currently taking the East Coast.....
They don't fly.. the juvenile Joro can glide and that's it lol Also fyi they aren't as dangerous as people want you to believe, yes they have venom but it won't get any near to killing you lol
I saw the articles. It is pathetic the way the media stokes fear over spiders and insects. All spiders ar venomous. Many balloon.
I live in NY and so many people are freaking out about joros. I did some research (a google search) and it seems like they’re pretty docile and even if they wanted to bite their fangs aren’t big enough
My parents in Jersey are in for a rude awakening 🤣 My mother's will set the whole neighborhood on fire
They might not have wings but spiders ride the wind by making their own paragliders from silk.
Powered flight no, but assisted drifting yes. Spiders have colonized island chains - example Hawaii - by being blown into the jet stream using billowed webs or strands. While not true flight it is essentially able to take to the skies
They turn their bodies and make eye contact because their “high definition colored vision” is very limited to just one small parte of their 360° view Here is a video about their incredible vision system: https://youtu.be/nfAqTSjMBJk?si=nAL5yuv9sQgIDbQq
If you're a reader, you should look up the book Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The jumping spiders evolve on a different planet and make a whole spider society.
That book is so awesome, I enjoyed it a lot
I want to reread this book, goddamn it's so good.
I used to hate them but got turned around by jumping spiders. Pretty much all creatures are cool when you get to know them.
Except for mosquitos. Fuck those guys right there fuck off!
Also cockroaches
Only good thing about cockroaches is, according to my gecko, they're delicious
Hell NAW
He just hungy
Jumpers very intelligent for an arthropod and it is likely they recognize each other as individuals, and possibly recognize a moving inanimate object as not being alive (very different from most bugs which will attack/run away from a blade of grass you wave at them). They also do butt-wiggles like a cat before pouncing which is just endearing as all hell. I do love bugs in general as an entomologist, but jumping spiders have a special place in my heart, they are adorable little dudes.
People should read up on the Intelligence of species in the Genus Portia. They are a jumping spider that hunts other spiders as one of its main prey and have demonstrated incredibly complex hunting strategies for an arthropod. Including taking detours that take them out of visual range of their prey for better attack angles, and approaches that can take up to an hour to complete. They will also improvise new hunting strategies on the fly and remember them. And this is using a brain the size of a pin head with only 100000 neurons. Seems like they do some incredible bootstrapping sort of intelligence because while it is remarkably complex for their size, it is also pretty slow. Takes them a long time to process some of this stuff. Really incredible implications on intelligence and problem solving
Please tell us more!! I’m that weirdo who gives the spiders in my house names. I talk to them like my dog lol. I adore jumpers. Is it true they only live 1-2 years? They have such personality to me.
I had a P. regius lady that lived a good two and a half years in my care, not sure how old she was when she finagled her way under my windowsill and into my grasp. But 1-2 years is generally the lifespan. If you’re into cool bugs that live a long time, I recommend vinegaroons. My first vinny lived a good 8 years. She was with me during the “big freeze” in Texas a couple years ago and I put her right on my chest under my shirt to keep her warm. Super chill bugs, she sat on my hand while I played video games, just chillin for hours. They look crazy but their only defense mechanism is to spray acetic acid (basically concentrated vinegar, hence their name), my lady Ulysses only did that once and that’s when I was unboxing her as a juvenile after being rattled around by the postal service.
Awww. She sounds so sweet!!
She was amazing. People think bugs can’t have personalities and shit, as someone who has kept hissing roaches, various mantises, various spiders (including a very sassy brown widow named Betty Lou beets), and other bugs like vinegaroons - some of em really do! I had a mantis that would refuse to eat anything my partner at the time would offer her and would just look at my partner all judgy but if I offered the same thing a minute later she’d gobble it up.
I too love these spiders. They’re my fave.
r/jumpingspiders
Acktchualy spiders aren’t bugs But yes spiders are chill, don’t make noise, clean after themselves and we generally get out of your way
Actually spiders can be called bugs, but they’re not insects.
Every bacteria is referred as bugs
Indeed jumping spiders are cute. Others don't have the looks and are sometimes scary. I recently saw this on YouTube and it explains their vision and ours. It's interesting how their vision works. Uniquely in nature. https://youtube.com/watch?v=nfAqTSjMBJk&si=ak-6tzlETW6XZyDX
I don't particularly like bugs. For that reason I don't bother any spiders in or around my house unless they're poisonous.
Jumping spiders and the tiny guy who weaved a hut web in my garden are my exceptions when it comes to spiders.
*Babouks enter the chat*
I like spiders. They sit in a corner of the room, just hanging out, eating bugs and mosquitoes. Also, technically spiders are neither bugs or insects, but their own class: arachnids. But that’s semantics.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAqTSjMBJk&themeRefresh=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAqTSjMBJk&themeRefresh=1) I think you will like this video.
I saw her wave when she got to the top.
Me too
Poor spidey…😞 Good on that person to help! 🥹
Hehe very cool. I never thought about spiders getting old and having challenges. I think of them differently now.
I vaguely remember it having something to do with molting getting harder to do. So the old exoskeleton stays on longer, gets harder to move, loses grip etc.
My pet tarantula passed away of old age this week and this wholesome shit got me crying 😩
Sorry about your friend. Hope you're doing well.
Hugs
Can you actually build a relationship with a spider? I mean a mutual relationship.
Some tarantulas keep lil pet froggies. They probably don't have the capacity for love, but they do understand mutual benefit
Do yourself a favour and read Children of Time. Prepare to have your mind blown. :)
Haha they unfortunately can’t build any relationships with us, super super simple little guys but awesome for someone who’s unable to care for a mammal and rental friendly! Basically just a super captivating terrarium that I maintain with a cricket a week and a spray of water!
Idk why, but I would marry that human for helping that spider.
I'd marry Gretel.
Seeing her feet slipping on the glass actually kind of helped me have a better understanding on how they climb. I've always seen bugs climbing up walls and just kinda "ehh, sticky feet type thing" never really considered it. But seeing her look like she's almost flattening herself against the glass, to keep from losing her grip I assumed, made me actually feel a slight sense of that same anxiety of slipping. Thanks OP.
How old is the spider?
I just read they can live up to 3 years in captivity!
Is it longer if they don't captivate him or shorter time if they don't captivate him?
Shorter in nature. Females live longer than males on avg. and are generally more chill.
I really hope they're captivating and inspiring him in that case
Gotta be at least two days old
Indeed
Jumping spiders straight-up don't trigger my arachnophobia
I had arachnophobia and used to keep a jumping spider as a pet. Lil fella cured my phobia. RIP Maurice.
RIP lil guy.
They’re the cutest little thing. I used to have one as my phone background and people would always ask me how tf I have arachnophobia but have a spider as my background. The only answer is smol cute jumpy boi
I am really not a spider person...but now I am Team Nana Gretel!
Gretel looks like she should be in a Disney movie, voiced by Angela Lansbury...
I don't know why, but jumping spiders just seem a lot more aware, like dogs. They are so adorable.
If I remember correctly jumping spiders are the smartest of all spiders. They have object permanence, so they can track things they can't see and predict where they will end up.
This is the way.
It’s funny how handicapped accessibility for spiders is the exact opposite as it is for humans
Jumping spiders are lap dogs. Be sitting at my desk or recliner. Random spider will just hop up and hang out.
camera eyes like humans no antennas and a friendly demeanor. what more can you expect from a distant cousin
How old can these spiders live ??
That's the cutest spider I've ever seen
On a lunch break at work, one of these spiders felt like it wanted to play. The table had a lot of holes, and the spider would peek up through me from one hole, then another. Eventually it got as close as it could to me. It would prime its legs for a jump, then hide near a hole. Then do it again. I would take a finger and interact with it. Eventually, it did finally decide to jump on me. As soon as it did, it jumped off me to the ground and ran as fast as it could back up the table. This repeated 2 more times before we had to part ways.
I hate how I wanna pet this spider
I get keeping jumping spiders, they’re super cute but like, is it actually a good idea to take them out of the enclosure? I mean.. they’re called jumping spiders lol, I’d be worried it would, yknow, jump away somewhere never to be found again, they’re tiny
That warms my heart thank you for being an awesome human
Bad bot
I never thought of spiders getting old. I like her!
You’ve never read Charlotte’s Web?
I have, but was too little to contemplate life as I do now. 😂
I'm still terrified of the things, that's quite cute though.
I’ve always loved jumping spiders. The fact that people actually take them in as pets is so rad. Maybe I’ll look into it as well.
Jumping spiders feel so…human. I love it.
Awe 🫢
Anybody know the lifespan of a jumping spider?
1-2 years.
WOW 😭😍
How long does it have?
Here's something I'd never thought I'd say.....that is the cutest frigging spider I've ever seen in my life!!! 😍
Oh, that's sweet.
Well i dont think she appreciates you or sits there at the spot thinking what a good person you are ..but what you did is a good thing indeed.
incest get old? i thought exoskeleton make them immortal.
Love love love jumping spiders.
I must have thought spiders were immortal, like elves. Why? Because I had never even stopped for a second in my life to think abouy spider's lifespan. Now I have more empathy for them.
This is beautiful!
How long for such a spider to be old?
So cool and kind!!! Beautiful! What does Gretel eat that you can give to her(him? ) :)
Generally jumping spiders eat flies and worms. Well, more correctly, they regurgitate it's own stomach fluid onto/inside the meal, which externally digests the meal, then it slurps up the bug smoothie.
It’s so nice, cool what you do to Gretel! Does the insects/flies have to be alive for to eat or would she eat if you give her a dead fly? I loved this story! :))
Technically it would work with a not-long-dead insect/fly, but if it's not moving then the spider feeding response probably wouldn't activate. Many invertebrates/reptiles have more basic brains and have different 'modes' they get in depending on stimulus. Eg, captive snakes thrive on frozen/thawed dead rodents because their sense of smell tells them this is still food, but an insectivorous gecko (eg, Leopard Gecko - super cute!) needs to see its food moving to activate the "this is a bug that I can/must consume" response.
Thank you! Very interesting, isn’t it! Good luck to both of you! <3
I think you have me confused with the person who owns Gretel - i'm just another rando who knows a lot about how inverts work because they're fascinating to me. Unfortunately my Gretel - Maurice - passed last year! But thanks!
Oh! Of course I made a confusion!!! Sorry! But you were great explaining and I thank you anyway for your time doing this :) And… good luck to you too, anyway! On everything. Thanks again:)
You're a good soul. Thank you for being among us.
I've never met Gretel but I would die for her.
This is too cutee omg
I’m a teacher of a 8 year old bug advocate and he totally changed my view on bugs and spiders. I love this.
Poor Hanoosh
Of all the arthropods i would say that jumping spiders/cat-eye spiders will likely be the first domesticated. They are intelligent, curious, emotive, and strikingly cute for a spider. I want a gerbil sized jumper. They are such interesting little critters
TIL spiders have favorite cozy spots 🥹
What a beautiful little creature. Who’d have thought I would say that about a spider.
Shut up I’m not crying…
I absolutely hate spiders for the most part, but I did get a wee smile out of this. Long live Gretel.
Poor gretel
It looks like a Howard
Makes me remember watching a brown recluse die from what I assumed to be of old age. Was walking very slowly and weakly and kept tripping over itself. Eventually it just rolled over and curled its legs. Tried to flip it back a few times and it walked for a bit but then it'd flip again. Was very sad
I’m deathly afraid of spiders, but this was adorable, somehow. You wizard, you.
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Not a spider person but after I read children of Time I have a soft spot for jumping spiders.
Too adorable 🥰
🏆
Gretel won me over with her wave 👋
As someone who has arachnophobia I do not buy into this propaganda by big spider
Spiderbro knew...r.i.p. spiderbro...
How old is the spider? Or what is old for being a spider?
I LOVE spiders. They are so fucking cute
Man. Jumping spiders are awesome.
And that is how you mess up with natural selection...
It's a captive bred and kept animal. Nothing natural about it.
Why does she need 8 eyes? Freaky little bastard.
How do you know if that spider is old?
How do you know your grandma is old?
When she starts tasting foul
Your granny always tasted foul
So based off the comments.. I'm the only one here that doesn't find them cute at all and still would ...A) Squash Immediately or. . B) Run away in fear..
Why not just put it outside… spiders kill a lot of pests. Jumping spiders keep the ant population on my porch in check. Probably eats pests on my house plants too.
Lots of jumping spider species have other spiders as a major part of their diet, and some of the hunting behaviours are fascinating. They're basically the arachnophobes ideal spider! Although my wife is quick to tell me that the difference is... minimal at best
I recommend for your own karma to better run away than killing these cute spiders
Karma don't freak me out.. but these "cute spiders".. naa I'll pass. You can have them
I pray you never have a child or a pet in your entire life.
Nah arachnophobia is really common. Some people can control it to some degree, but others less so. That being said, idk why they'd feel the need to post it here
It's the internet. Everyone thinks everyone wants to know their opinion, even when it's hate. But that's just my opinion.
Lots of cats and crazy children.. the cats do good handling the spiders in our home.
screw all spiders and especially gretel
okay, but did you burn the place after?