Found this old picture of it from before it died I took it home though to study it more and figure out what species it was I found it underneath a rock at the location that I put on the post back in either July or August
Maybe Phidippus audax, I've seen ones with orange marks on campus.
Rescue from kitchen; did a photo shoot on way outside
in house, on the second floor
~4150' elevation.
Found lurking inside residence.
~4150' elevation.
Spider made its home within a flower planter in a residential neighborhood. It was well camouflaged!
I observed this Salticus palpalis jumping spider moving around on Prickly Pear Cactus pads looking for a meal.
"Sometimes called the Zebra Spider this jumping spider has multiple pairs of eyes. The anterior median eyes (the pair of eyes in the center front) are comparatively very large and give these spiders excellent color vision and a high degree of resolution. The shape of the retinae indicates that these eyes function like tele lenses. Obviously they also provide binocular vision, meaning that the spider can judge distances accurately - a must for a jumping predator.
Jumping spiders are diurnal and hunt during the daytime. They feed on insects and have been seen hunting on mosquitoes and flies much larger than them. They locate their prey with their front eyes, and then meticulously stalk them, before moving in close enough to pounce.
The mating season for jumping spiders is in spring and early summer, and they breed once a year. Before mating, males perform a courtship dance that involves waving its front appendages (exclusive to males) called pedipalps and moving its bdominal region up and down. If the female likes the dance, mating occurs, which involves the male transferring sperm into the female organ known as epigyne."
Found on produce at store
Behavior - Feeding
Habitat - Nature Reserve
Additional comments? - Crested guineafowl
Nest present - No
How many? - 12
Maybe female P. octopunctatus. Large 20mm+