Well, turns out we are wrong. We caught a Carrothus xanthogrammar, which is a north european species that would just about live in my area.

As amazing as it would have been to find out one of my escapees had made it outside and stayed nearby, this was also a pretty amazing experience!

Among speculations of environmental influence and calculating the minimal chances of any neighbor having jumping spiders, we were convinced this could not be a local species. We do not have ANYTHING like that.

When we were inside, I looked at it closely and kept having doubts. I had lost a female Ph. johnsoni and this looked like a male. And even though this was bigger than the ometepe I had lost and must have gone through molts, mine had green on its butt. Googling showed that neither of them fit 100%.

When we had caught it, we were convinced, it could not be a domestic species, so we excitedly assumed it was one of my escapees, namely my escaped Ph. ometepe from April or even my escaped Ph. johnsoni from even earlier.

Den Spruch muss ich mir merken!!!

Apparently the English name is Fence post spider

strip of fabric sample, cut the grass and branch to size. Soak moss.

Glue grass, drill hole cover, branch and clothes pin with hammock to the inside of the enclosure. Tweezers help. Put a bit of soaked moss into the drill hole cover.

Done!

> Rock display case (Amazon)

Use the drill on a low setting to make the three holes you need: Left and right big enough for the eyelets, top for the perfume bottle cap.

If you get it right, you won’t need any glue, but if not, hot glue helps.

Use the clothes pin to form a tiny hammock with a

Most accessories can be sourced from Temu, Ali Express and Amazon.

> mesh ventilation eyelets (Ali Express)
> Perfume sample bottle caps (Temu)
> mini clothes pins (Temu)
> drill hole covers (Temu)
> spaghnum moss (exotic animal shop)
> fake grass (Temu)
> fabric samples (JOANN)
> branch (nature)

What a lovely jumper! And I love the name!