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Our Tarantula & Cricket Molting

I found our tarantula this morning on her back.  I thought she was dead but when I poked her a little, she moved, but barely.

By morning she had molted.  Her exoskeleton is the one on the top left.

 

She stayed on her back for a few more hours recovering from the molt.  Finally, she turned back over.

This cricket was in our cricket habitat and was caught molting as well.  See it's old dark brown exoskeleton at the top left of the picture.  The cricket has gotten too big for it's "skin" as is climbing out through it's old "head".  The newly molted cricket is bright white and it's skin is very sensitive.  It will darken and grow harder in a few hours.

 

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