p. metallica molting!!!

[Protectyaaaneck]

I walked in to do my hourly checkup jk lol, and I found my p. metallica on its back getting ready to molt. I watched the entire thing, I will post the good pics once it gets in position to photograph. It looks a little bit more blue as well

one of my a. bicegoi molted today and so did my p. formosa, both my versicolor and my purpurea look like they are due for a molt any time now.

 

[Shagrath666]

congrats, hope we get some awesome pics!! It seems like peer pressure, one T sees the other molting and has to jump on the bandwagon

 

[Thompson08]

Awesome! They look even more amazing after they are finished molting.

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

yeah, it is contageous (sp.?), the versicolor just molted and is freakin huge now, I can see some red hairs starting on the abdomen as well. Posting pics soon.

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

Updated with pics!!!!

Okay everyone so I finally got some good shots of the gooty when it was out and about. Here we go:

Just got done with the molting process, now its time to harden up

are you lookin at me?

ventral

giving someone the finger

and a couple of the speed demon subfusca, never really sat still.

and lastly the versicolor molted while I was at work this morning, it looks like it gained a ton of size since this molt. I cant wait to see em all stretched out outside of its web.

;P ;P

 

[J.huff23]

Did you get to sex the molts yet? Thats always the funnest part for me

 

[Thompson08]

lol I like the pic when the metallica is giving us the finger

 

[CT9A]

haha the finger part gave me a laugh. cool ts and thanks for sharing.

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

I am no good with sexing molts, I dont have a microscope, and also most of the molt remains that i do get are pretty mangled. It would be nice to know what sex they are but,if i had to guess i would say female for both the metallica, subfusca, and versicolor, but I dont know. I am sorta going off the idea where you look for a larger margin between the last set of legs nearest the book lungs, if its larger than its female but really tight space means male, but this is all just hypothesee's (sp?) lol.

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

the a. purpurea is molting as I am writing this. :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[Thompson08]

nice! You have a nice collection

 

[agent lead]

awesome!

my p regalis molted today too...and my gbb molted 3 days ago...


nice collection!