SLATERS Gracelyn

Slaters are small hard shelled bugs. They have 14 legs and 2 antennae and they shed their skin often.

A slater lives about 2-4 years, in this time a slater goes through their life cycle. The life cycle starts with an egg, in 6-7 weeks the egg hatches into a nymph, about 9-13 months it moults 8 times and then it turns into an adult.

Slaters are common in New Zealand. They love to live in tree stumps, cracks and wood piles.They also live in Australia, Africa and America.

Slaters mostly eat dead plants and rotten vegetables. They are eaten by slater spiders, millipedes and centipedes.

Slaters are nocturnal crustaceans that means they sleep though the day, and are active in the night. Slaters are not insects. Slaters do not have lungs they have GILLS!

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