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Lasiodora parahybana

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shluz, 09.04.2006 16:12

please tell me how many times does Lasiodora parahybana shed in its entire life (approximately)

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09.04.2006 18:47, sealor

Try to ask this here, but before you ask voros, specify whether it is a female or a male, and also, females can live for 20, 30 and even 40 years in different species, I doubt that you can get even a pre-dimensional answer to this question so easily. This is if you have friends abroad, where this was done later, then yes. And yet, for sure, even in males, the number of molts to the last is different, especially in females, and it can be very different.

04.06.2006 16:16, karmagoa

females can live 20, 30, and even 40 years in various species


The age is terrible, 20-40 years, and even what a spread.
I heard that the maximum life expectancy of some American cicada is 17 years, (this info is outdated?).
So who is the record holder for longevity in the end?

04.06.2006 18:29, sealor

The fact is probably that this cicada (Cicada septemdecim) is a record holder among insects. Although I wonder if there is a longer life span among arthropods. Another correction is that such a life span is observed in captive birds.

06.06.2006 13:09, lepidopterolog

Female tarantulas molt throughout their lives, while males molt until they reach sexual maturity (usually 5 to 7 times).

06.06.2006 13:36, sealor

Not everything is unambiguous here, there are exceptions to this definition - more than once among amateurs there were cases of a male molting after the "last molt", and the males survived. My former male albopilosa ate little, moved a lot, and became decrepit over time - the abdomen wrinkled. In general, it is interesting whether the cause of death of males is irreversible physiological changes or "psychological moments" such as refusal to eat...

06.06.2006 13:48, lepidopterolog

Males of all bird-eating species die some time after mating. My male B. albopilosa built a sperm web, prepared for mating, but I never found a female for him. So he died two weeks later, unsatisfied frown.gif

06.06.2006 16:06, sealor

Come on! Just the male that I got, I successfully mated him with a female, then he lived for 6 months, but in general, it's kind of strange, if males died so quickly without finding a female after the first "refueling", then when would they find her? Did you have a male who wasn't sexually mature at first, or was he already sexually mature?

06.06.2006 20:30, lepidopterolog

Immature, I bought it when it was about 1.5 cm long.

06.06.2006 20:58, sealor

This is probably an anomaly. Just according to many reports, males (albopilosis) more than once weave a sperm web even without mating and live at least for two months.

07.06.2006 6:42, karmagoa

In general, it is interesting whether the cause of death of males is irreversible physiological changes or "psychological moments" such as refusal to eat...


It is clear that "psychological changes" depend directly on physiological ones. But still, feed it, inject glucose there, etc. it is impossible (to exclude these crazy moments)?
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