Name: Speckled Teddy Bear Spiderling Octopunctatus
SKU: bic5000s
Availability: OutOfStock

Description

Now offering Phidippus octopunctatus Speckled Teddy Bear Jumping spider spiderlings. These are captive-bred by us.

These natives are one of the largest species in the United States and Mexico. Some of those who study spiders claim these are larger than regals but scientists measure spiders in terms of body length, rather than leg span like hobbyists do.

Sold unsexed because they are too young to tell the sexes on yet. $29.99 each for 4th to 5th instar captive-bred spiderlings (young, have shed their skin 3 or 4 times). Date of birth is Halloween, 2025!

They are very stable and currently feeding well on D. melanogaster fruit flies (sold separately in links below). They’ve been feeding on these fruit flies since they were 1st instar, but we like to grow them up to a size where our customers can purchase with a higher degree of confidence. We cannot sex them as they haven’t taken on their sexual colorations or characters yet.

Main photo is of the mother spider. Her coloration is singular in our experience and we’ve seen a bunch of this species. We make no guarantee that any of her offspring will develop into that same color. We merely present you with all of the information that we have so that you can make your best purchasing decision. This is a VERY special mother spider. She is the only one with her coloration that we have ever seen and we had no idea when she was younger that she was going to develop into this color form.

Some food and caging products are listed below.

An excerpt from an email I sent to somebody on 2/17/26…

Aside the fartilis, we keep everything else the same in terms of frequency of sprayings/humidity. I’ve never used a humidity gauge and so I can’t give you a value. It would vary anyway. Our bug rooms definitely run Arizona-dry and we spray jumpers once or twice per week, but ventilation is rather low and so there are peaks of humidity and dryness through that cycle, no doubt. We think more about hydration than humidity.

We are currently trying out more terrestrial vs arboreal offerings for the young octo spiderlings and noticing that they are happy to hide under the leaf litter at the bottom of the small cups we keep them in vs up near the top, more often than not. Of course, this isn’t a great thing for display or seeing the spiders but I have noticed in nature that the younger ones are never higher up on plants, like other jumpers. I’ve seen a few of them under rocks, in nature. And so in my mind it all sort of adds up to their ideal care needs perhaps being different than any other Phidippus species we’ve worked with. They seem more like Habronattus, in terms of habitat preference, as it turns out.

So, offering a more terrestrial set up is the current tweak we are employing for this more sensitive than average species, where some customers have noted more frequent molting issues with them.

Be sure to read our Jumping Spider Care Sheet which covers everything from purchasing, to unboxing to care through the life cycle.

Check out our YouTube video below and subscribe to our YouTube Channel! The first video shows care and set up for jumping spiders…