Jumping Spider Mating Dance-Pedipalp Turns Down Xcaliber
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Video of my 2 Phidippus Audax Jumping spiders in courtship mode. In this video, Xcaliber failed to impress Pedipalp, or she was just playing hard to get. He later had a successful mate with her. I released her and the spiderlings back into the wild. Xcaliber eventually passed away, so I don't have him anymore. He was a spider I rescued at Taco Bell. One of the employess was mopping the floor, and I saw the spider with oil, water and soap all over him. I took him home quickly and dried him off, but he quit breathing a few minutes later. I was about to throw him away, but I decided to try something, and amazingly it worked. I put the spider in warm water and stirred him around while he was unconsious to get the soap and oil out of his booklungs. Then I dried the spider the best I could and got air blowing on him and started moving his abdomen around. About 20 minutes later, he suddenly moved his legs. So I flipped him rightside up, and kept moving him some more. The he was really lively. I do have a video of him after his rescue, but this was before I had my Hi-Def camcorder. It was before his molt too, he still had orange spots when I rescued him. He was the coolest male audax spider I ever had.