This little guy is my officemate. I call him Jumping Spider. Every morning he makes his way across the wall above my desk. He usually pauses around my monitor and I give him a cheery “good morning” then he’s on his way again. I’m not sure what variety of spider he is, but he’s fairly small and not very threatening. I like his little white legs.
But this morning, we both noticed an interloper on our wall. Ms. Big Brown Spider . She’s maybe not that much larger than Jumping Spider, but she’s bulkier. Jumping Spider ran in her direction and she retreated, but after JS turned away, Ms. Big took a second look. For a moment, I thought there might be a fight, but eventually they headed off in opposite directions.
I think these are both Hasarius adansoni (Adanson’s House Jumper Spider) of opposite sexes. These “house jumpers” eat mosquitos so I hope they stick around a while.
Japan has some amazing spiders. These little guys aren’t too impressive, but check out Common Spiders in Japan to see a gallery of spiders with good photos.
Posted by kuri at November 15, 2002 12:02 PM
What a pansy looking couple of spiders…wouldn’t frighten a fly even!
Posted by: gomichild on November 15, 2002 12:32 PMHey Kristen,
Dunno what’s up with IE6 - everyone seems to be having problems with how it formats their page. Anyway, thought you might want to know that in IE6 (maybe 5 as well?) it’s not only pushing your sidebar to the bottom of the page, but it’s also chopping the text between the two pictures.
Here’s a screengrab:
http://www.jjcha.net/kuri.jpg
Looks fine in Mozilla though…
-Jason
Posted by: Jason Cha on November 15, 2002 01:09 PMHi! Kristen,
Just writing to say hi! 8-)
Thank you for introducing my web page
on the Internet, “Common spiders in Japan”.
Yes, indeed almost positive it is a Hasarius Adansoni (Haetori) — I have a similar one in my house. Your jumping spider also appears to be a male, by the way, if I know anything about spiders (which is very little).
Posted by: S.L. Herman on August 30, 2003 03:35 PM