I've had this girl for a while and I've always gotten lots of questions about her and lots of interest in her babies. I have a couple loose ideas, but nothing concrete. Hoping to get some opinions on her. Snapped a couple shots last night, but couldn't manage any decent belly shots as she was being fidgety. Have a couple of decent belly shots from a while back, though, and will include those.

Her head is extraordinarily light; I've had other normals with mild to moderate blushing on the head, but as you can see, it's considerably more than moderate on her. She also has much more blushing, especially laterally, than I've ever seen in a normal. This may be genetic, as many of her offspring have also displayed above average blushing and/or flaming.

Also noteworthy is the incomplete, but prominent vertebral striping; it's as though her dorsal pattern is trying, but failing, to form a full stripe. This does not appear to be genetic, as none of her offspring display a similar level of striping (a few have had moderate striping, but not quite that prominent). She also has a lot of granite speckling within her loops/"alien heads"; I've seen this in other normals, but I do want to point out that her offspring always have similarly prominent speckling, especially laterally near the venter.

One more curious fact I want to mention before I get on with the pics is that her offspring often come out with speckling in the labial scales (4 out of 6 last summer, for example); this often gives them the appearance of having a mustache, as is often seen in spiders and spider combos. Sometimes this also gives them the appearance of being spotnosed, but neither her nor the sire to those offspring display similar traits. I can include a couple pics of the "mustache" if this might help, or if anyone is curious. On to the pics.






Pics of her belly from forever ago (still looks the same)




Thanks for looking!