@Kayti you need to grab the molt while it is still fresh or be very careful not to tear it while unfolding the abdominal portion once it's dry. A female's molt will have a "pocket" between the anterior pair of lungs. You can see that this is absent from my T's molt below:
@Kayti it turns out I didn’t know! I was CERTAIN my B. hamorii was a male, but it turns out that the sexual characteristics had not yet developed even by this size (at least not that I can see!) and it was not until two molts later that I found unmistakable evidence of spermatheca:
My gorgeous B. hamorii just molted today! I saw him chew the molt a bit but it turns out it was...
Now I’m questioning the species — I always thought their colors more vivid than most photos of B. hamorii and credited that to their being male (so I had heard) but now looking at the vivid red-orange knees and the coloring of the cephalothorax, I’m thinking they are probably B. smithi (ex auratum)...
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