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The Bug Shack, based in Los Angeles, is a breeder of jumping spiders focused on the development of healthy keeping and breeding practices, sharing our love for these amazing creatures, and promoting the conservation of wild jumper populations.

09/10/2023

Went for a hike, met 3 handsome A. steindachneri gentlemen on the way. One of them even tapped for me, signaling that I am just his type 🤭
Los Angeles, CA, USA

06/06/2023

How beautiful is this big girl? Hyllus giganteus

04/21/2023

Hammock silk

03/27/2023

Here we go again, date # 2. Lets hope this one will go better!
Phidippus nikites

03/27/2023

Good morning from The Bug Shack!
Whats happening today:
-Our wolf spider, Akeela, molted last night. I might have missed it but I caught him snacking on his old molt.
-Tansy’s babies from her first egg sack started dispersing (She’s in the butterfly net).She also laid her 2nd egg sack this morning. its huge and she didn’t spill her eggs this time.
On the agenda for today:
-Feed the freshly emerged i2 slings from Alphie (P. regius), Judy (P. johnsoni), Foxtrot (P. regius), Bettie (P. regius), and Charlie (P. regius).
-We will also be attempting to mate our pair of Phidippus nikites again, after yesterday’s failure 😝
Have a beautiful day!

03/27/2023

Ouch….When you use all your best moves and she still doesn’t like you😢

03/24/2023

Phidippus nikites mature male looking for some fun 😎

03/24/2023

Tarantula cribs, dollar tree edition 😎

03/20/2023

I am very excited to say that we’re finally on instagram! Come follow us if you enjoy our posts here. This is a brand new account so we have no followers yet! My posts might be a little awkward until I figure this instagram thing out lol
I would also appreciate cool spider accounts recommendations!
Lazy Matilda will now be an instagram model❤️

03/14/2023

I am very happy to see this beautiful P. nikites moving around! He came out of his mature molt yesterday and went straight into a death curl. He stayed like that all of yesterday while I placed him into a deli cup with a moist napkin and gave him sugar water on qtips. Today he started moving around. His movements are still sloppy but I am hopeful he will continue improving! It took him exactly 1 year and 1 month to reach maturity.

03/14/2023

Hello, I’m Matilda. I don’t build hammocks. Nothing wrong with me, just lazy.

03/12/2023

I was looking for jumping spiders on a little vacation I took this week and came across this beautiful crab spider guarding her egg sack.
Mazatlán, MX

03/04/2023

Extra fuzzy boy ❤️

02/22/2023

How REGAL is this regal jumping spider baby??

02/20/2023

Do you guys remember Tansy whose eggs all fell out into her hammock? I posted about her 4 days ago. Well today her spilt eggs are hatching!!! Well done mama!

02/17/2023

Let me see your senior spoods!

Featuring: Friday, P. regius

02/15/2023

Tansy is a new, inexperienced mom. When she laid her first egg sack on January 28th, she spilled most of her eggs out of the little k**b she made on the ceiling and they fell into her hammock. I considered removing them but decided to give her a chance after all. She’s been a really good mom and guarded her spilt eggs ever since, just hanging over them in her hammock. Over the next few days we will see if Tansy made any babies from her first, less than ideal try 🐣 🕷️

02/09/2023

I was going to film a short clip of this E. ruficapillus feeding but it grabbed the worm before I could even pick up my camera lol so just a pic of a thicc spider eating a mealworm

02/09/2023

I opened her enclosure and she went to “hide”
I totally can’t see you!

02/07/2023

Its a good life 🎶
Blue Death Feigning Beetles

01/24/2023

Heres a little friend I met in downtown Los Angeles today. People on iNsturalist suggested it might be a female Messua limbata which is a species I’ve never encountered before. She was about the size of a ladybug 🐞

01/22/2023

Friday is a very special spider. She laid 8 egg sacks over the course of her lifetime (her first egg sack had over 400 slings!) and her babies are making lots of people happy ❤️ She is now around 2 years old and has some difficulty climbing. About a month ago she stopped leaving her hammock. I placed a feeding dish right next to her and she’s been gratefully taking her treats from there. Yesterday I put together a smaller, senior enclosure for her. It has cheese cloth on one side and the ceiling, corks on the second side, and a ladder on the third. Since being put in there she has “activated” and she’s been roaming around her new enclosure and exploring for 2 days now. Seems like she’s still full of energy and she’s fully taking advantage of all the senior modifications I gave her:) it seems like she has another year in her for sure:)

01/12/2023

Foxtrot had a great day today. She woke up in the morning and was taken to the balcony to bask in some warm morning sun. Then she was taken out of the enclosure and had a blast jumping on her human’s hands. Then a nice, juice roach magically appeared in her enclosure, and after a thrilling hunt, she feasted for a good few hours. She even went on a “date” in the evening with a super handsome man. Overall it was one of those great days one never forgets:)

01/12/2023

Me with tacos

12/30/2022

Would you ever keep isopods (rolly pollies) as pets? These little pearls are Armadillidium vulgare, the Japanese Magic Potion Morphs. I started with a group of 10 about a year ago and now my colony numbers hundreds! Favorite foods? Zucchini squash and dried riverbed shrimp 🦐

12/29/2022

Poor Basil (P. otiosus) really needs a lady! we threw a fly in with him expecting an epic hunt, what we got instead was an epic mating display. In his defense, that was a pretty sexy fly.

12/28/2022

Who here owns tarantulas? Lets play ”guess the species”!

12/07/2022

Can we all just take a moment out of our busy day and laugh at Garfield failing to catch her roach THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF HER FEEDING CUP?!
She’s been at it for about 15 min so far lmao

12/07/2022

Does anybody else’s spider take selfies?

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Went for a hike, met 3 handsome A. steindachni gentlemen on the way

Ouch….When you use all your best moves and she still doesn’t like you😢

Poor Basil (P. otiosus) really needs a lady! we threw a fly in with him expecting an epic hunt, what we got instead was an epic mating display. In his defense, that was a pretty sexy fly.

Can we all just take a moment out of our busy day and laugh at Garfield failing to catch her roach THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF HER FEEDING CUP?! She’s been at it for about 15 min so far lmao

When you know you’re too short but you’re too lazy to jump...

Do you guys know how badass the little Phidippus nikites is? One of the strongest, toughest, most resilient and cutest species I’ve had the pleasure of owning ❤️

Feeding my backyard, free range orbweavers. Its their lucky day!

Ever seen regius i2 babies learning to crawl? Mona babies

Excited little audax ❤️

My blue death feigning beetles ❤️ squash

Don’t you hate it when the webs you spun keep getting all over your face and your legs? Starring lovely Cricket, P. regius

P. regius babies

Every morning I chose one of my spiders to come out on the balcony with me and enjoy some sunlight while I drink my morning coffee. While sunlight can be dangerous, we sre out here esrly in the morning, while sunlight is gentle and they’re in partial shade. Today I took out Friday, my orange P. regius with her 5th egg sack of babies. This is the first time these babies felt sunlight and it seems to have “activated” them. They started moving around, shifting position, even coming out to the edge of their hammock and peeking outside for the very first time. Friday enjoyed a little time off from mothering to crawl around, sunbathe and to check her feeding cup for food about 10 times or so before returning to the hammock and putting an end to all the ruckus.