As my interest in learning about & photographing Salticids grows, my ability to locate jumpers in new areas (or new species around the house) is not keeping pace (to put it mildly!). I head out to promising-looking areas (whether in woods, fields, swampy margins of ponds, etc) and return having foun…

The wall around my garden is painted white. A large variety of jumping spide love to sit on it waiting for insects and they are so easy to find.

I’m not familiar with the salticid fauna in the US but I have a bit of experience with salticids in Europe. The species that we have here are almost all habitat specialists. There are a few species which have habitat preferences that can also be met in urban areas and which are therefore also synant…

I’d like to echo the advice of spending time looking in one spot. There have been several occasions when I’ve only noticed a jumping spider after I’ve hunched down to look at something else, and they can be quite good at escaping into the leaf litter, tangles of plants, or the underside of leaves. H…

Thanks for all the suggestions - they’ve been very helpful! The ‘go slowly’ or ‘sit & watch’ approach has been my go-to method of hunting. In general, I’ve found this approach quite successful since I was a kid. Even when the target species isn’t found, often many other interesting critters are. Th…

Agreed. I was literally on a concrete slab between the roof and floor of the outside of my home (kind of like a small railless platform) trying to record sounds and take photos of a carpenter bee when I encountered a truly GORGEOUS Carrhotus sp. !!! I thought they were addicted to trees but I found …

In my Home garden I have seen about 20 species!

This time of year, you will want to primarily focus your Salticidae hunts from sun up to early afternoon. The heat makes most retreat around 1400 or so. If you are looking for new species, focus on new places. Many jumpers, especially the more obscure species, have very specific habitat niches. The …

Also, I am Salticidude. I was originally “Bothrops07” on iNat and that name change didn’t carry over to this forum.

Jumping spiders are very season-dependent - if you’re looking in the wrong season for a species, you probably won’t find anything. Juveniles can be significantly harder to find than adults, in some species. Phidippus, for example, are mostly juveniles right now (there are a few species that mature …

Locating Salticidae (Jumping spiders)

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marina_gorbunova August 2, 2021, 5:25pm 12

You can change it on the forum separately I guess?
Which unusual places could you mention?

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