Growth and longevity

Tarantula moulting. Photo: R Bolzan © Australian Museum.

Discover how a spider's size and appearance can change from spiderling to adult and how some spiders live for less than a year, while others live for up to twenty years.

• Growing out of your skin
• Egg sac to adult
• Spider ages

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