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Examples of molt
molt
When they've grown big enough, they swim to the surface to molt and fly to land.
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The larvae, or wigglers, molt and become pupae, or tumblers, which become adults.
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They quickly climb the nearest vertical surface to molt and unroll their wings.
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On the other hand, today's modern arthropods molt the very same way every time.
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Before a molt, the snake stops eating and often hides or moves to a safe place.
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Some summers more than 200 swans gather on the pond while their feathers molt.
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But infected caterpillars do not molt again once levels of EGT become high enough.
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Alive Mole Crab and Peeler Crab baits in the copper penny and molt color patterns.
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He's going to use a crawfish molt pattern Monday morning, as it's that time of year.
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- Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
- Shed: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring"
- In biology, moulting or molting (both pronounced), also known as sloughing, shedding, or for some species, ecdysis) is the manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body (often but not always an outer layer or covering), either at specific times of year, or at specific points ...
- (Molting (Arthropoda)) Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticula in arthropods and related groups (Ecdysozoa). Since the cuticula of these animals is also the skeletal support (the exoskeleton) of the body and is inelastic, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed. ...
- The skin or feathers cast off during the process of molting; To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer; To shed in such a manner
- (Molting) The shedding of the exoskeleton of crustaceans in order to grow.
- (molting) to lose the old skin or exoskeleton; similar to shedding
- (Molting) Or ecdysis, is the shedding of an old cuticle and formation of a new one.
- (Molting) The growing method of arthropods. The arthropod discards its original small exoskeleton and grows a new larger one
