Blue beauty

[Vrqstx]

Hello, so I was removing some stones out of the way and I foun this little treasure, a blue Whip Spider next to anither normal color Whip Spider so here's my question:

What are the odds of finding a blue spider? I know species of blue tarantulas but I've never seen one of this kind being blue.

Blue Lobsters are one in two million.

 

[mellow]

What a cool find! Did you catch it? If it's freshly molted then that might be the reason why it's blue, or maybe it's just a super cool blue species of tailless whip scorpion!

 

[ReignofInvertebrates]

Looks like it just molted. As the exoskeleton hardens the color will get darker.

 

[wizentrop]

That's a lovely Paraphrynus. As mentioned above it is very freshly molted (prossible an hour or two before the photo was taken). By now it should look like the normal one in the last photo.
The normal one also looks quite fresh out of its old exoskeleton. Whip spiders have synchronized molting among siblings, so it likely that these two are eggsac mates.

 

[Arthroverts]

Those are gorgeous. Awesome find!

Thanks for sharing,

Arthroverts

 

[aphono]

Wow, finding a fresh molt in the wild! Gorgeous!

Damon diadema actively in process of molting(note the normal colors on the old skin):



About a hour or so after molt:



The skin goes back to normal colors when it completely hardens off.

 

[Albireo Wulfbooper]

I love that freshly-moulted blue - every time one of my amblypuppies moults I take a billion photos during that brief stage!