What does instar mean?

[EulersK]

Not if there is still validity to the question and the answers given....I recently had a member message me with the same question.

Gonna have to disagree with this one. The way I see it, overall, this is a discussion forum. I'm not talking about subforums, here - as a whole, Arachnoboards is for discussions. It's not just for fact gathering. If it were, then these threads would be perfect. But since this is all discussion based and not a classroom, by design, there will always be different people willing and able to post at different times. Had this thread been recreated, I would put money on it that new information would be presented, and the new poster (the necro) would have gotten more information than a simple "yes or no" answer. As I'm sure you'd agree, users on here tend to go on tangents, which is not a bad thing. It presents unrelated, important information to users that are willing to read.

 

[cold blood]

Had this thread been recreated, I would put money on it that new information would be presented, and the new poster (the necro) would have gotten more information than a simple "yes or no" answer.

We will have to agree to disagree on that....I mean it was a simple question, seriously, there is NO new information to be added, it was a simple question with a simple answer.

Please tell me what new info there is about the word instar and its meaning.

And fact gathering is as much a part of a forum as a discussion IMO.

 

[tonypace2009]

Stop the hate against zombie threads, they are awesome

My favorite are the old my spider escaped threads. New posters asking if spider has been located yet . after 3 year's.

 

[lalberts9310]

My favorite are the old my spider escaped threads. New posters asking if spider has been located yet . after 3 year's.

YES!!! I always get a kick out of those threads.

 

[Timmee81]

Wel luckily enough this thread was still around because I had asked the same question on other recent posts and not a single person has bothered to reply so if a posts active and people are willing to reply that's much better than active ones where no one gives you time of day. Just saying

 

[Nyke]

One year later, let me add more terms (from https://sites.google.com/site/tarantuladb/reference)

General Terms
50/50 split – Splitting the offspring from a breeding loan half and half between the respective owners.

Breeding loan – Where the owner of a mature male T “loans” the male to the owner of a female for a breeding attempt. If successful, it will result in a 50/50 split.

BL – body length – a less common way of measuring a T, from chelicerae to spinnerets.

CB – captive bred -- Although some people use CB to mean captive born which could include sacs from
WC mothers, they use CBB (captive bred & born) to distinguish spiders mated in captivity.

CH - captive hatched, usually means from wild caught mothers

CR – captive raised

Crix - crickets

Death curl – A dying T, upright with legs curled like a clenching fist

Dessicated - dehydrated, dried up

Dyskinetic Syndrome (DKS) - A normally fatal disease that affects tarantulas, extremely rare. Symptoms include jerky, spastic, or wobbly movements.

DIY - do it yourself (building your own tanks, enclosures, hides, backdrops, etc.)

FS/T - for sale or trade

Genera – plural form of genus.

Gravid – a female with eggs, pregnant.

Hide – an artificial burrow or place for your tarantula to hide (wood, bark, flower pot, coconut shell etc.)

ICU - intensive care unit, a place to keep an ailing T (usually a sterile delicup with a moist paper towel)

ISO - In search of

Juvie – juvenile tarantula

KK - kritter keeper

LPS – local pet store

LS/DLS – leg span/diagonal leg span – the common way of measuring a T (leg I on one side to leg IV on the other side)

LTC – long term captive, but originally wild caught

Nematode – A worm-like parasite that can infect tarantulas, either wild caught or fed wild caught prey. Very rare.

NW - new world (from North, Central, and South America)

OW - old world (from Africa, Asia, Australia) )

Pet hole – an obligate burrowing species, once they dig their burrow, the “hole” is about all you see of them

Pinhead - very small crickets, used to feed very small spiders

Post-molt - Right after molting when the exoskeleton is hardening (darkening)

Pre-molt – The timeframe (1 week to 2 months) prior to molting. Signs: fasting, darkened abdomen, sluggish behavior, etc.

RH – relative humidity

SADS – Sudden Avic Death Syndrome – sometimes avic slings just die suddenly for no apparent reason

Sexual dimorphism – when one gender has a characteristic difference from the other (color, size, etc.)

Sling (or s'ling) – spiderling – baby tarantula

Substrate - the material that is the bottom enclosure (coconut coir, peat moss, potting soil, etc.)

T - tarantula

Temp - temperature

Threat display – when a T rears its front legs up (and sometimes bears fangs) in defense

Theraphosid – short for Theraphosidae - The scientific family that tarantulas belong to.

Ventral sexing – Determining the sex of a T by examining the area between the booklungs.

WC - wild caught

WTB - want to buy

X.X.X (#males.#females.#unsexed) system that denotes the number and gender of species in a collection
1.0.0 one male tarantula
0.2.0 two female tarantulas
0.0.3 three unsexed tarantulas
1.2.3 G. rosea – this means a total of 6 Grammostola rosea: 1 male, 2 female and 3 unsexed