Thank you Liam!

Yesterday Liam kindly bought in his tarantulas and snakes's moulted skin to show the class. After looking at the moulted skin on our visualiser the children were intrigued to feel the skin. They said that the spiders skin felt fury and soft and the snake skin felt bumpy and ruff.

Thank you for sharing Tommy the tarantula and Charlie the snake's skin with us Liam! 

Did you know that...

For a tarantula to grow it must shed it's hard outer skin.  Adult tarantulas shed their skin approximately once a year (younger ones more frequently).  They'll usually do this within their retreat. Before a tarantula moults it will usually stop taking food.  They will shed their skin in one piece and this process can take up to 24 hours to complete.  

Snakes rub against rough surfaces to shed their skin. This happens regularly when old skin is outgrown.