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One frame was taken every 40 seconds. Total length of molt 3 hours 46 minutes.

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Erik Rasmussen 2 months ago

Very cool. Those are, indeed, some very white knees.
Paul Klinger 2 months ago

I had never seen a spider do that before....very cool!
Garrett M. Smith 2 months ago

Spiders creep the hell out of me, but that was still pretty cool.
Brian Boudreau 2 months ago

ah there goes my skin crawling again.. great footage
LordGordon 2 months ago

wonderful!
JMC 2 months ago

strange but cool.
Peter Scott 2 months ago

Spiders and tarantulas molt their skin in order for them to grow bigger, the skins they shed look like almost a perfect replica. When they are spiderlings they tend to molt every six weeks, when they are adults they molt about once a year.

Twilight (the tarantula you see above) currently molts every two to three months. I've wanted to make a video of one of my tarantulas molting for quite a while.
Be Well ;-) 2 months ago

glad you did :)