🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
Dr. Adrian Smith (Ant Lab) has a cellar spider video, I repeat, a SPIDER VIDEO https://youtu.be/0lpljh1o2w8

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
Dr. Adrian Smith (Ant Lab) has a cellar spider video, I repeat, a SPIDER VIDEO https://youtu.be/0lpljh1o2w8

⚠️THIS POST IS PHOLCUS PHALANGIOIDES PROPAGANDA⚠️
From 2025
Both my current spiders (cobweb spider and cellar spider) molted this week!
OK, so you know how instead of gradually turning rust-red like iron does, copper turns from, well, copper to light blueish-green, and how copper compounds will turn a flame blue-green? Well, arthropod hemolymph (their equivalent of blood) uses copper-containing proteins to transport oxygen, and so spider "blood" is blueish-green—like how our iron-rich blood is red.
You usually can't see it, but right after molting this spider is unusually translucent (the exoskeleton is still hardening up) and the legs still have a distinct blue-green hue.
Bonus pic: ._.
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#SpiderSunday: Look who molted!
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#SpiderSunday: a tantalizing glimpse inside the abdomen of the _Pholcus_ cellar spider. ???
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