Juvenile L. parahybana molt

[paassatt]

This past Friday I was lucky enough to catch my L. parahybana's molt from flip to finish. I was able to get some decent pics of the process; each one is about 15 minutes apart after the actual molt started. It was on its back for about 3 hours before the molting actually began.

On its back

And then...

About 45 minutes after complete separation

Exuvia next to a US quarter for scale

 

[killy]

Beautiful! Nice job documenting the event!

 

[paassatt]

Beautiful! Nice job documenting the event!

Thank you. This was my first time seeing the entire molting process; very exciting, to say the least.

 

[EndlessForms]

awesome! mine's in serious premolt i with she\he'd just molt already lol