The urticating hair are only found on the top and read of the abdomen, which is the area that usually cracks open during molting, so that section usually doesn’t stay intact.
Well, I can only speak from my experience. I haven’t handled quite a few exuviae from freshly moulted spiders and can’t remember every encountering any urticating hair on them. It is one of the thinnest part of the spiders skin and usually separates first, so I assume they just fall during moulting.
Also they are really not that bad. I had my hands bombarded a few times and it just itches a bit. But you probably don’t want to get it in your eyes or breath therm in.
Oh yeah… i was just pointing out that some species sometimes have hairs that remain very irritating. And if someone is allergic (probably shouldn’t be handling molts of any type at all) it can easily trigger the allergy
remon@ani.social 6 days ago
The urticating hair are only found on the top and read of the abdomen, which is the area that usually cracks open during molting, so that section usually doesn’t stay intact.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Usually
remon@ani.social 6 days ago
Well, I can only speak from my experience. I haven’t handled quite a few exuviae from freshly moulted spiders and can’t remember every encountering any urticating hair on them. It is one of the thinnest part of the spiders skin and usually separates first, so I assume they just fall during moulting.
Also they are really not that bad. I had my hands bombarded a few times and it just itches a bit. But you probably don’t want to get it in your eyes or breath therm in.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Oh yeah… i was just pointing out that some species sometimes have hairs that remain very irritating. And if someone is allergic (probably shouldn’t be handling molts of any type at all) it can easily trigger the allergy