Comments on: Jumping Spider

By: shanna

shanna — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:41:29 +0000

i LOVE jumping spiders. i never kill them when i find them. My mom raised me and my brothers to basically kill any spider in the house except a jumping spider. I have held them and touched them my whole life and have yet to be bit by one. Every time i find one inside my house, i get it on my hand and i go and put it on a house plant, or a plant outside. Like i said, i have been handling them ever since i can remember and I haven’t been bit by one yet. they aren’t dangerous.

By: David

David — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:10:34 +0000

I Live In FLORIDA I have caught this spider that’s black on the body it has white fangs and a white ring surrounding the body And in the back its a light brown with a stripe of the same black color as the body… Please reply soon Because i Have Caught This Spider and i don’t know if i have to kill it or let it in my house (cause my house is full of ants…)

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:46:20 +0000

Yea my house is like arachnophobia i have these jumping spiders all over the place. I live in Buffalo NY they on my car i have killed one baby so far but where there is one there is many. anyone know of a way to keep them away from my house and car. I am terrified of spiders and i flipping out here!

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:27:49 +0000

Phillip,

I would suggest removing the spider with a type of insect spray that is designed for getting rid of spiders. Otherwise you might try capturing it and moving it to a new location then proceed to spray around your house (it’s good to do this once a year, usually in the spring). This will keep spiders from coming back.

Good luck!
Jen

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:43:52 +0000

I live in West Central Illinois, near the Mississippi River. The house I have lived in for the last 15 years has always had a few jumping spiders that I see right around this time of year. They look like little black tarantulas and often have a distinctive marking on their back. The strangest thing I have observed about these spiders is their ability to change color – that little marking on their backs, which depends on the surrounding. I have seen the marking be red, white, and even a blue tone, about he shade of blue that used for the numbering of the posts on this page. It is the same color of blue that is in my kitchen. I wish I would have taken pictures of this, but I suppose someone would accuse me of photo shopping it. I’ve never been bitten by one.

By: Philip Rondeau

Philip Rondeau — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:34:56 +0000

I have a daring jumping spider who has made a nest below the window on our screen door. And we keep getting it mad when we open and close the door. How do you suggest we attempt to remove it?

By: maggie_may_

maggie_may_ — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:11:01 +0000

i live in south Texas, and the little jumping spiders have always been around my home, but just recently i have made a friend of one who made her home in my kitchen window, she comes out to watch me do dishes… so i have started feeding her and in the last 2 weeks she has almost doubled in size (even though she was tiny to start out with) but i do have a question…how often should i feed her, because i feed her everyday sometimes 4 flys at once depending on how many i can catch, and she never turns down her dinner, but is the “over feeding” healthy for her???

By: brittany

brittany — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:46:01 +0000

i was bit today in my swimming pool by a daring jumping spider. i freaked out never seeing one before and went to the hospital. they said they are not dangerous unless allergic to them but they gave me 3 shots today because of it i did not know i had to get a tetna shot because i got bit and a steroid shot to with me being a bad diabetic they was very cautious with me but it stung for a while that little thing hurt but i feel better now since they gave me the shots u can only see the punctures in my arm its not even red any more . we took the spider with us to make sure we knew what kind it was. and they said it was a daring jumping spider so maybe that helps….

By: shanice whelan

shanice whelan — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:07:15 +0000

hi my name is shanice, just saying the picture of someone been bit well let me tell u I’ve been bit before well i was only 6 when i was bit but i thought it was a spider cause that’s the only thing I’m scared of which i am NOW but actually it wasn’t it was something but i don’t know what it is but I’m sure you will know thanks anyways

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:55:45 +0000

I always heard that they are poisonous, so just a minute ago I killed one that was crawling across one of my guitars, now I feel bad now that I know that they aren’t venomous to humans, just only an allergy to some. Now I know next time not to kill them. Here I see mostly the black ones with the white markings, I can tell a jumping spider by how they move and how their legs are positioned, the only ones I see here is the black ones with white markings, and once in a while I’ll see a very tiny brown one, both are very fast little critters, I live in the subtropics, so maybe there are more that I haven’t seen yet. Poor little fella dropped a strand of silk all the way to the floor after I sprayed it with Raid.