Caught her in the act!

[Talkenlate04]

Rolled over, cleaned some, then went straight for the molt! Look at those white fangs!
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[Talkenlate04]

Ehh you might want to click on it twice then use full screen mode once on youtube. For some reason this new camera wants to give me some crap.

 

[Lucara]

naughty girl!

 

[JayzunBoget]

Why do you thinks she would do that? I mean, what's the advantage to her?

 

[Stamper]

wow nice job catching that moment.:worship:
I love the moment about 20 sec in where she first spreads her fangs and just starts to tear into it.

 

[DrAce]

Why do you thinks she would do that? I mean, what's the advantage to her?

There are a lot of fluids and nutrients left on the exuvium (sp?) after it's been shed. Before the exoskeleton is lost, there is a build up of salty liquid between the new skin, and the old one. They've been known to focus attention on the abdomen, where a lot of said fluid sometimes collects.

There may be merit to destroying your skin to ensure it doesn't look like a spider when it's pushed out of your home as well. That might bring birds etc coming to your house... for all we know, it's probably easier to get a ball of skin out of your burrow than a spidery mess of hard legs.

 

[Talkenlate04]

There are a lot of fluids and nutrients left on the exuvium (sp?) after it's been shed. Before the exoskeleton is lost, there is a build up of salty liquid between the new skin, and the old one. They've been known to focus attention on the abdomen, where a lot of said fluid sometimes collects.

There may be merit to destroying your skin to ensure it doesn't look like a spider when it's pushed out of your home as well. That might bring birds etc coming to your house... for all we know, it's probably easier to get a ball of skin out of your burrow than a spidery mess of hard legs.

Ya you can see her moving the molt around to get to the wet part of the abdomen!

 

[DrAce]

Ya you can see her moving the molt around to get to the wet part of the abdomen!

I'm not going to lie to you, Talken.

All I saw was a bunch of legs and a couple of fangs, and a bit of an exuvium, and movement thereof.

I'm amazed that you can see an abdomen in there!

Very cool vid, by the way. I should have written than earlier. You know I'm a big fan of your videos/photos though.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Well I was watching it happen so maybe that is why I know what she went for. But if you double click on it and make if full screen once on youtube you can see things a bit better.