Adult: one molt per year, but fresh fall adults look very different from summer birds. On freshly molted birds, black plumage has white spots all over; by winter, spots start to disappear ...
That’s when he decided to use their molted exoskeletons—or exuviae, in scientific terms—as vessels for Texas mountain laurel seeds. For a sculpture titled Cicada Lifecycle, he lined up the dried ...
That's because many of the fossils of these creatures are headless shells that were left behind when they molted, squirming out of their exoskeletons through the head opening as they grew ever ...
Either that or it's the molted carapace of some extraterrestrial creature that you don't want to meet. In a world of tidy overhangs, about the first two and a half feet of the F80 is dedicated to ...
Their front ends flap in the breeze like moth-eaten blankets; their fully molted rear ends stand naked as gray rhino hide. Each summer as many as 10,000 visitors to Badlands National Park discover ...
Every day we checked if the aphids were still alive and whether they had molted to the next instar. Once they were adults, we counted the number of newborns. Newborn aphids were removed from the ...