Re: Time for a game!!! Sex Boanerges G. pulchra :-)
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Originally Posted by
Repsrul
I was going to say female. I have no clue what I am looking for but...
So the third picture under the microscope is a male? It look totally different from the first two picture. In your statement above "looking to be female" are you telling us it is or are you not sure? At what age can you tell? Or is it after how many times they have molted? Then you can tell. That was pretty interesting. :gj:
The bigger they are the eaiser it is to tell what they are. As adults you don't even need a microscope to see if it is male or female. This is a B. emilia but this molt is not under a microscope and you can see clearly with the naked eye the flap (spermathecae) showing that it is a female:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2/ca336b3b.jpg
I am 99.9% sure I am right. As they get bigger the flap you see on the female will get bigger too and it is eaiser to tell. Since this is the first time I have personally seen a female G. pulchra under the microscope I didn't want to say it is definitely female and bet my life on it if you know what I mean. I am pretty sure though!! This is the flap (spermathecae) you are looking for to see if it is female:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2/80cb4883.jpg
Notice the male has no flap at all.
Now once a few weeks pass and she hardens up from her molt I can look at the bottom of my female also to see whats up.
This is a male G. pulchra:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ulchracrop.jpg
That patch of dark hairs will not be there on a female and has not been there on the one that molted out to be female. I was always pretty sure she was female just by looking at her abdomen:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...cropanswer.jpg
Hope all this helps and I did not confuse you :gj:
Re: Time for a game!!! Sex Boanerges G. pulchra :-)
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2/f137e9b1.jpg
Just got a shot of the one that molted and is female on the side of her KK. If you notice she does not have that dark patch of hairs like the male does above the epigastric furrow between the first pair of book lungs :gj:
