Is this real?

[Phil]

I was hoping to go to this year's BTS annual convention last month but due to other commitments could not make it. So thought I would Google for some images. Anyway, a long way down and probably nothing to do with the show at all, I stumbled across this picture. Now we all like nice curvy butt's bit this is some bad ass nikki minaj implant type territory!
Is this real and has anyone else seen anything like this?

 

[Casey K.]

Austin has a H. pulchripes sling like this. It is a Siamese twin. It's awesome! He posted some pics of it here I think not too long ago when he produced a sac. It made it to 2nd instar but I'm not sure how it's doing now. I will ask him if he can post more pics soon! . Little miracles, they are.

 

[Enn49]

@Phil and @Casey K. This was @Austin S. but sadly it didn't make the 2nd moult

 

[Casey K.]

Awwww poor baby....... I was really hoping it would've pulled through......the little tiger did well making it to ewl

 

[Phil]

@Phil and @Casey K. This was @Austin S. but sadly it didn't make the 2nd moult

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That is sad .never seen this before but thee is always "mutations" in every living thing so shouldn't be surprised really.

 

[Enn49]

Awwww poor baby....... I was really hoping it would've pulled through......the little tiger did well making it to ewl

At least it did make its first moult but as it got bigger there would be the risk of it tearing itself apart. At least the one Phil spotted has a better chance with just one set of legs.

That is sad .never seen this before but thee is always "mutations" in every living thing so shouldn't be surprised really.

I'd not seen in Ts before but there was a milk snake born in the UK a few years ago with 2 heads it lived over a year and seemed to be doing well until one head turned on the other.

 

[Casey K.]

@Enn49- you mean the one head literally tried to swallow the other, lol? Or something like that?

 

[Phil]

At least it did make its first moult but as it got bigger there would be the risk of it tearing itself apart. At least the one Phil spotted has a better chance with just one set of legs.





I'd not seen in Ts before but there was a milk snake born in the UK a few years ago with 2 heads it lived over a year and seemed to be doing well until one head turned on the other.

I often have violent disagreements with the voices in my head but never to the point that I chew my own face....lol. A bit like @Casey K., you shouldn't, but I just found myself giggling at the thought of the snake turning on itself.....does that make me a bad person? Lol

 

[Enn49]

@Enn49- you mean the one head literally tried to swallow the other, lol? Or something like that?

Exactly that, yes. Many snakes can be cannibalistic especially Kings and Milks so it really wasn't so surprising.

I often have violent disagreements with the voices in my head but never to the point that I chew my own face....lol. A bit like @Casey K., you shouldn't, but I just found myself giggling at the thought of the snake turning on itself.....does that make me a bad person? Lol

But did it turn on itself or the other snake?

 

[Phil]

Exactly that, yes. Many snakes can be cannibalistic especially Kings and Milks so it really wasn't so surprising.




But did it turn on itself or the other snake?

Now my brain hurts! Can't ask complicated questions like that...lmao

 

[Austin S.]

Yes, sadly the H. pulchripes twins did not make it.
Surprisingly, they molted into 1st instar though! But were stuck while trying to shed into 2nd instar. These were attached in a totally different way than the picture in the OP. If it was just one spider with two abdomens, it wouldn't be a problem. However, these had double sets of everything, except the abdomen. Two sets of fangs, carapace, legs, pedipalps, even 8 sets of book lungs and 4 spinnerets.

 

[Phil]

Yes, sadly the H. pulchripes twins did not make it.
Surprisingly, they molted into 1st instar though! But were stuck while trying to shed into 2nd instar. These were attached in a totally different way than the picture in the OP. If it was just one spider with two abdomens, it wouldn't be a problem. However, these had double sets of everything, except the abdomen. Two sets of fangs, carapace, legs, pedipalps, even 8 sets of book lungs and 4 spinnerets.

Such a shame. Thanks for sharing your pics. Poor little mite

 

[SpiderDad61]

Wow crazy.

 

[VanessaS]

I think it probably happens frequently in the wild, but they just don't survive.