Witness a grasshopper molting as it sheds its outgrown exoskeleton
Learn about the growth of the grasshopper (suborder Caelifera) while watching one molt by shedding its outgrown exoskeleton.
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NARRATOR: As the grasshopper grows, it sheds its hard outer skeleton. This process is called molting. Most grasshoppers molt about five times, each time emerging larger and closer in size to a fully formed adult. In the last stage of molting, the wings are fully grown.
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