Sitting on my shoulder while in a kayak. It just sat there for over an hour.
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lol I meant where like state, region, biome?
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I know, I was just kidding. I found it in the woods of the Pocono mountains.
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I believed you without hesitation. Wouldn’t be nearly the strangest story around. 
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Found this pretty girl on a poppy on Santa Rosa Island. Phidippus johnsoni. I’m surprised the pictures came out, because the wind was blowing and billowing that flower every which way and this girl was hanging on for dear life.
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I’ve often wondered how insects and spiders hang onto wind-tossed plants. Nice pics!
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I was driving my brother home one day and a tiny jumping spider crawled out from under the windshield wipers on the outside of the glass! I had my brother keep an eye on him while I drove, and we were both yelling ‘HANG ON LITTLE MAN!!’
He had great grip strength and made it home to be relocated to the tomato plants in the garden!
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Mantis just molted and grew some wings!! She still needs a name but i’m just so bad at deciding lol. She’s very pretty!!
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She is fabulous! 
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She is such an interesting color! I always enjoy seeing praying mantis. They’re fascinating, and such effective hunters.
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My mom used to call them the devil’s racehorse!
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Guess what I’m about to do. Wish me luck!
This is Mathilda’s new enclosure, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Hope she likes it!
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Well, great success! Everything went smoothly. Mathilda was perfect and made things super easy. She calmly walked into the catch cup with just a gentle touch from the paintbrush, then calmly walked out of the cup into her new enclosure. If it’s even possible for a spider to be well-behaved, Mathilda is a very good girl. 
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Wow, that mantis is gorgeous and huge! I love those guys so much, I really need to keep one at some point.
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That looks great Jennifer! I am thinking of rehousing my curly hair. But I don’t know if I should because he has got a white woven carpet on top of his substrate and now he is hanging out in his coconut hut so I am not sure I should do it in the near future. He may be getting ready to molt. And I don’t want to destroy his carpet! 
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If he needs more space, then there’s really no way around having to destroy their webbing. I had to pull up a bunch of Mattie’s webbing when I had to remove her hide so I had space to get the catch cup in there. If they need an upgrade, I think it’s a necessary evil. No real way around it.
But if he hasn’t outgrown his current digs, then I’d just leave him be. Sounds like he’s cozy where he’s at, and there’s no need to put him through the stress unless he actually needs an upgrade.
Mathilda needed an upgrade. She put on a ton of size with her last molt and took up over half the floor of her old enclosure with her legs stretched out. You can see the enclosure size difference in the first picture I posted with everything on the table in the bin. I skipped the Tarantula Cribs “medium” size and jumped straight to a large (she was in a small).
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This is true. Curly doesn’t need an upgrade so he is probably better off being left alone at the moment. I definitely feel like he may be molting anyway……
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I keep some other inverts, but just got my first tarantula! It’s a baby Brachypelma smithi and I can’t wait to watch it grow into its adult colors (and size).
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Unfortunately those grow at a glacial rate, from what I understand. But they are beautiful.
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