Arboreal Molting in Bark Scorpions

[YungRasputin]

I was reading that bark scorpions need vertical facing bark in order to facilitate molting - is this true? should the bark be 90 degrees to the top of the substrate or can it be angled?

 

[BoyFromLA]

While this is not the same species, but you will get the basic idea.

 

[YungRasputin]

While this is not the same species, but you will get the basic idea.

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most definitely! i was thinking they *had* to be perfectly vertical because gravity was like crucial to their molting process but i think i see now - so basically anything they can latch onto and hang upside down then?

the species in question: C. sculpturatus

 

[Joey Spijkers]

Bark scorpions is a broad term. For most species of bark scorpion, this is absolutely needed, and they always molt on a vertical surface. This doesn’t have to be perfectly vertical in a 90° angle, as long as gravity can assist it.

the species in question: C. sculpturatus

This is definitely the case for Centruroides as well.

 

[Tarantuland]

While this is not the same species, but you will get the basic idea.

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That’s so cool- I didn’t know scorpions could molt upside down like that

 

[YungRasputin]

That’s so cool- I didn’t know scorpions could molt upside down like that

me either until i found 1 sentence in a random fact sheet on Arizona bark scorpions and started this thread lol

 

[The Snark]

me either until i found 1 sentence in a random fact sheet

Doing a little homework paid off.