Sunday, October 28, 2012

Molting

Living with Aden means learning all sorts of things about animals that I never otherwise would have known.

The night I picked up Dad and Patty from the airport, Teresa called and said that Aden's tarantula was dead.  I thought she was probably right becuase he had been eating less and less, finally stopping completely.  But, I arrived home to find that he was in the process of molting his exoskeleton.  I had no idea this would happen, and I had never seen it before!

EYES!!

FANGS!!

View from above.

View from underneath.

View from inside.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great photography! Extremely interesting subject! Were you surprised at the color of the molted spider? I was!