Lasiodorides striatus Molt Pics

[Godzilla2000]

Now bear with me on this because I took plenty of pictures of my L. striatus molting so this might take awhile to upload all of them. I basically sat there and watched her molt all the way until she popped out of her old exoskeleton. First up....Ari in the molt position.

 

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Ok. This lack of being able to upload multiple files on my server is getting irritating.

 

[deifiler]

Nice! I look forward to seeing the other pictures too...

My little spiderling moulted yesterday too, I tried for pictures with my SLR camera, though I'm not holding my breath that it will look good, as I've never really used a 'proper' camera :<

Ah well gotta start somewhere!

 

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[vulpina]

Great sequence of pics!!

Andy

 

[Godzilla2000]

Thank you! I sat there dilligently watching Ari molt. I was so excited to see her molting plus capture some great pics for my own record as well.

 

[Pixie]

Awesome pics!!!

Pixie

 

[rosehaired1979]

Cool pics

 

[Godzilla2000]

Thank you all. I'm just so glad to have had the opportunity to take these pictures.

 

[avmaviator]

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Some of the best moulting pics i have seen yet. How did it take her to moult? My Parahybana sling (.5 inch now) moulted two days ago during the day... i am pissed cause i didn't even noticed until the evening, i was wondering why she was light blue and i saw the skin next to her... DOHHH. Oh well.

Arno

 

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Originally posted by avmaviator
Some of the best moulting pics i have seen yet. How did it take her to moult? My Parahybana sling (.5 inch now) moulted two days ago during the day... i am pissed cause i didn't even noticed until the evening, i was wondering why she was light blue and i saw the skin next to her... DOHHH. Oh well.

Arno

I'd say total it took Ari 2 - 3 hours from the time she flipped on her back to when she had completely cast off her old exoskeleton to complete the molting process. It was around 6:30 P.M. I noticed she was in the molt position. She even gave me enough time to fix something to eat for dinner before squashing herself out of her old exoskeleton.