You probably recognize Aragog, my female Burgundy Goliath bird-eating tarantula, from my previous videos. Well, she moulted several months ago and check out what happened! Moulting is the process by which a tarantula sheds its old exoskeleton to grow larger or regenerate lost or damaged body parts. In Aragog’s case, she’ll be doing both! This species can grow to an impressive leg span of nearly 12 inches, which she hasn’t reached yet. Plus, she’ll be regrowing a leg she lost during her last moul

Cambodians began eating tarantulas during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979), when millions starved after the state dismantled the entire food system. -Markets were abolished. -Private property was banned. -Food was confiscated by the state. -Traditional fishing and foraging were prohibited. -Urban people with no farming knowledge were forced into the fields. People were forced into agricultural collectives, worked from dawn to night, given impossible production quotas, and punished when crops f