![TIL Tarantulas and other spiders lack leg extending muscles, and rely on the blood pressure spike from a heartbeat to 'reinflate' the leg back to its extended position. This is why spiders curl up when they die. : r/todayilearned TIL Tarantulas and other spiders lack leg extending muscles, and rely on the blood pressure spike from a heartbeat to 'reinflate' the leg back to its extended position. This is why spiders curl up when they die. : r/todayilearned](https://external-preview.redd.it/fWbWGyuatC97Z8VoQRnggTR0JQNaoI-OeqfLCfEH2wk.jpg?auto=webp&s=f1925e61e2e1f26eea3cf142b2c16307f4c5ab31)
TIL Tarantulas and other spiders lack leg extending muscles, and rely on the blood pressure spike from a heartbeat to 'reinflate' the leg back to its extended position. This is why spiders curl up when they die. : r/todayilearned
Collie Ennis 🕷 on Twitter: "Checking a salmon pink Tarantulas mouth parts for nematodes/maggots. Good to give them a once over a couple of times a year. Crickets can carry Phorid fly
![Lost a mealworm in my gbb slings enclosure. It got caught in web and wasn't able to be removed at the time(mealworm would've pulled everything out of the cage with the web) Lost a mealworm in my gbb slings enclosure. It got caught in web and wasn't able to be removed at the time(mealworm would've pulled everything out of the cage with the web)](https://preview.redd.it/0w85xnluyub41.jpg?auto=webp&s=2d8964cdb3d59ac5054e48351bd5f83186e0fa11)
Lost a mealworm in my gbb slings enclosure. It got caught in web and wasn't able to be removed at the time(mealworm would've pulled everything out of the cage with the web)
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