White Thing? Rolly Poly baby?

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White Thing? Rolly Poly baby?

Post by limeslide » Fri May 14, 2010 10:13 pm

I just saw a kinda-long white thing on the soil, it was near a Roly Poly in the tat. Is it a baby?
Also, the seem to curl in a half-ball and wiggle back and forth?
Is that regular behavior?
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Post by SebbyCrab » Fri May 14, 2010 11:53 pm

The white thing is a poly exo. The curling and wiggling is normal for molting polies. I've had the chance to see several of mine molting.

ETA: Poly babies are normally very small. Similar to half grains of brown rice.
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Post by limeslide » Sat May 15, 2010 12:24 pm

SebbyCrab wrote:ETA: Poly babies are normally very small. Similar to half grains of brown rice.
Thanks! I guess they are molting.
I saw the babies, then, too.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to
the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into Chaos
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