I'm not afraid of spiders anymore ... He said, 'You're not. You're scared of spiders!'" said Mulligan, owner of Jumping Jewels AZ in Surprise, Ariz. "I was like, 'Yeah, but these ones are so cute.' So ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...