molts's Usage Examples:

The larva molts several times until it resembles the adult and then, after more molts, achieves adult development.

As an insect grows it molts, growing a new exoskeleton under its old one and then shedding the old one.

the lepidopteran tobacco budworm and that may have an effect on how many molts caterpillars will undergo.

kill the host larva, though these mandibles are lost as soon as the larva molts to the second instar, at which point it simply feeds on the pollen/nectar.

Earwigs have five molts in the year before they become adults.

It molts twice a year.

with some specimens exhibiting perfectly conjoined plates from successive molts.

For blue crabs, the number of molts in a lifetime is fixed at approximately 25.

Females typically exhibit 18 molts after the larval stages, while postlarval.

These birds go through two molts in a year; the males are generally less colorful in winter.

Aquarium, Boston, to refer to preserved items such as animal bones, skins, molts and eggs.

infects the tick vector as a larva, and the infection is maintained when it molts to a nymph and later develops as an adult.

landmark paper that clarified the terminologies used in describing the molts and plumages of birds (Humphrey–Parkes terminology).

The juveniles have two inserted molts in their first autumn, each yielding plumage like an adult female.

Va travessar molta terra ferma, molts boscs i molts rius, i va arribar a una gran ciutat on [a on] va gastar tots els.

098 in) long over two molts, before passing through three molts as a mysis larva.

subsequent prebasic molts (or postnuptial molts) : the second prebasic molt takes place approximately one year after the first.

Postnuptial molts constitute complete.

It quickly molts, and the next three stages are similar, but larger.

These molts take 10–20 days, during which the planktonic.

probably live for several years, which is quite long for a harvestman, with molts occurring only every several months.

Each time the crab molts, the new claw grows larger.

The crab only molts at night or in night-like conditions due to the.

constrained by the inelastic exoskeleton and development involves a series of molts.

Synonyms:

shedding; ecdysis; molting; moult; moulting; sloughing;

Antonyms:

stand still; switch off; disengage; switch on; orient;