#exuvium

[onenicebugperday]

@silentlycrazy submitted: Hey there! This little guy was found in Rhode Island inside a box of wine from Spain so...

I also think this is a molt and not a body (note the hollows where the legs were pulled out) but you might want to tag it for bug death anyway

It is definitely a molt and not a dead spider and it's almost certainly a recluse, probably a Mediterranean recluse, Loxosceles rufescens. They leave their molts behind stretched out flat like this, which is pretty cool. Hope this fella's actual body is alive and well in Spain!

[dancinginmyroomx]

Crywolf themed blinkies

[mylove-imalone-again]

Exuvium (Oblivion pt. II)

[fatchance]

Celadon.

I found this recently-molted cicada outside my home yesterday. The green color of its wings darkens quickly as the wings stiffen and harden for flight. In Sierra Vista, Arizona.

[lyricalmusingstuff]

What is your SOUL made of? Beauty. && what is beauty? Terror.

[aviculor]

My A. anax molted and as I promised, here is a microscope image of a tarantula's spermatheca; the internal sex organ that collects and stores a male's sperm after coitus, allowing the eggs to be fertilized as they are laid. A structure which is helpfully molted alongside the rest of the exoskeleton. The exact shape varies from species to species, but if there is an upward-facing flap on the inside of a tarantula's molted exuvia between the top pair of booklungs, you have yourself a bouncing baby girl. Naturally, it is harder to detect in spiderlings as it becomes more prominent as they grow and become sexually mature, but that is why a microscope is so important for any serious hobbyist. You can have a false negative if the tarantula is too small, but there's no such thing as a false positive. If you've found that flap, it is definitive.

[wiltingsky]

“I can taste the way you terrify me.”

-Crywolf, FAR LIGHT

[blairamour]

OBLIVIØN [ widow | exuvium ]