I was doing the rounds yesterday and when I went to check on my juvenile Heterometrus longimanus community, I managed to catch one little guy in the act of molting (something I've only witnessed once before in a much smaller scorpion).
When I found him at 8:20 PM:
One of his tankmates came out to check on him and see what I was up to (note the threat posture):
A blacklight pic for fun -- he decided to molt right beside another exuvium:
A weird shot of what the pedipalps look like during all this (8:42 PM):10:48 PM and the pedipalps are free:
Finished up just after midnight:
That's his exuvium on the left, along with the one he molted next to:
For another 7 pictures of the sequence, please go here.
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