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Good morning, friends.
I've observed several times now a correlation between a drop in barometric pressure, & molting/atypical behaviours. The latter is to be expected, but it's the seemingly spontaneous response of the former that I'm curious about; might an impending bout of moisture hasten this usually days-long (at least) process?
For several weeks, we've had daytime temps in the 80's (night drops from low 50'-60's), but we had a couple small systems move in bringing rain, & dropping the daytime temps since Monday evening. Well, I had a geniculata that ate a cricket THAT day (Monday), then dropped molt like a prom dress THAT night. It happened so unexpectedly, that I thought her excuviae her corpse. Then LAST night into this morning, my versicolor did almost the same thing, but took the time to web herself off (in the most precarious position I thought, but she seems to be fine now). I've observed this phenomena with a couple of my Avic species, & my D. diamantinensis before, & thought that perhaps it might have something to do with them sharing a similar geographic distribution... but it's happened once with my P. metallica, as well.
Anyone else notice this as well?
Also, my apologies for the horrendous photo quality; my phone's a busted-up mess, & I've misplaced my camera.
I've observed several times now a correlation between a drop in barometric pressure, & molting/atypical behaviours. The latter is to be expected, but it's the seemingly spontaneous response of the former that I'm curious about; might an impending bout of moisture hasten this usually days-long (at least) process?
For several weeks, we've had daytime temps in the 80's (night drops from low 50'-60's), but we had a couple small systems move in bringing rain, & dropping the daytime temps since Monday evening. Well, I had a geniculata that ate a cricket THAT day (Monday), then dropped molt like a prom dress THAT night. It happened so unexpectedly, that I thought her excuviae her corpse. Then LAST night into this morning, my versicolor did almost the same thing, but took the time to web herself off (in the most precarious position I thought, but she seems to be fine now). I've observed this phenomena with a couple of my Avic species, & my D. diamantinensis before, & thought that perhaps it might have something to do with them sharing a similar geographic distribution... but it's happened once with my P. metallica, as well.
Anyone else notice this as well?
Also, my apologies for the horrendous photo quality; my phone's a busted-up mess, & I've misplaced my camera.