Clive the Jumping SpiderHere's the adorable little Phidippus audax that I found on my car this summer! I saw him climbing around on my windshield while driving home one day and couldn't let him get hurt falling off into the road, so I pulled over and grabbed an empty water bottle from the car (yes, I have several, unfortunately), ran out and got him to climb inside the bottle. I brought him home and let him go on my plant-filled porch. He was nice enough to wait to hide until after I got my camera! He posed for several minutes, and then took off and made a home in one of my porch plants. I named him Clive. He stayed all summer - i saw him every once in a while, scooting around in the plants. What a cutie!!
3 comments:
How cute!!! Is he actually super green or is that just the lighting? That's so cute that you let him go again though. Spiders are adorable!
Not a great fan of spiders myself, but this is a fantastic picture.
Thanks! :) When I first had him in the car he was a little more brownish black but on the porch the plants reflecting off the top and off the railing (which is black iron) on the bottom made him greener. His little legs had some green on them originally, and the bright green huge things on his face (I forget what they're called) were very green without the plant reflections.
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