Praying mantis regularly shed their skin. A baby praying mantis will through a number of moults, getting larger at each shed, until it reaches adult size. Adult praying mantis do not shed their skins after reaching maturity. When praying mantis are kept as pets it is crucial to support this delicate process. Praying mantis must …
If you’ve ever kept a colony of dubia roaches then you may have noticed the odd specimen that seems to change color overnight. So why do dubia roaches turn white like this? White dubia roaches have just moulted their exoskeleton. They do this in order to grow. The old skin splits open, and out pops …
Molting is important to tarantulas for a variety of reasons. Possibly the biggest reason why tarantulas molt is to allow them to grow larger. However molting also offers an opportunity to regrow missing body parts, including urticating hairs that have been kicked off in the past. Lastly, molting is necessary for male tarantulas to reach …
Many people think that tarantulas lay on their backs to die, but this is not true. Most tarantulas die the right way up, with their legs curled underneath their body. So if tarantulas don’t die on their backs, then why exactly do some tarantulas lay on their backs? The simple answer is that tarantulas lay …
One of the most commonly asked questions about pet tarantulas relates to a bald patch on their bum, where the hair seems to have come off the abdomen. You can often see paler skin beneath, which worries many new tarantula keepers. What does it mean? Is it a bad thing? How does it happen? And …
One of the most challenging parts of keeping a pet tarantula is caring for it before, during and after a moult. A pet tarantula is at its most fragile when it moults, and if there are going to be complications when keeping tarantulas it almost always occurs during a moult. So the next obvious question …
