Molt: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	moulting • shedding • moult • molting

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A molting penguin

A newly emerged cicada hangs upside down from its brown exoskeleton on a branch, with its soft, pale green body still unfolding during the final molting stage.

teneral cicada in final molting stage

Witness a grasshopper molting as it sheds its outgrown exoskeleton

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