#regal jumper

[rarumara]

Avril webbing a hammock <3

[arachdoods]

upide down

[kas-e]

One of the prettiest female Phidippus Regius I've ever come across. I shot this girl about 10 years ago in North Florida.

Currently, people sell these white colored Regals under the name "Bahamas Regius", implying that they are exclusive to the island regions. Unfortunately, this nothing further than a marketing ploy, as there are plenty of white Regals hiding in the Florida bush as well.

[sumbug]

love when they pose for the camera ヽ(o´3`o)ﾉ

[onenicebugperday]

@merlindoesntwearpants​ submitted: I put my hand on our deck railing and felt something soft and fuzzy. Turned out it was a beautiful girl!

(Found in GA)

Ohohohoho look how tubby she is I love her! Tubby and fuzzy, what a delight. She appears to be a regal jumper! 

[kas-e]

Phidippus Regius

This is one of the rarest colored P. Regius females that I ever came across in North Florida. The orange ones were most common, of course, but every so often I would come across a grey/white colored one, but this day I found this yellowish/cream colored girl. What is really strange is the fact that her chelicerae are green (usually this only applies to males). She was a very large, healthy specimen as well. One of my coolest finds during this time of working with jumping spiders. I shot her in her natural habitat (here), then took her home for a quick studio session, and immediately returned her to the location where I found her.

These shots are prepped for a spread in the book I'm working on currently, that will show my photography catalog of many Salticidae species shot and collected in North America.

[kas-e]

Variations of Female x Regal Jumper (Phidippus Regius)

All subjects collected in the wild on the coast of North Florida. First and second shot are simple stacks of a few exposures, while the last is a single shot. Last shot photographed with a Nikon D300 paired with the Sigma 105DG on a half stack of tubes, first two stacks are with a 28mm f3.5 Ai-S Nikkor reverse mounted.

[kas-e]

P. Regius X Otiosus (Hybrid) - Penultimate female

Shot with a 28mm reverse mounted, most are stacks.