The swimming period lasts from six to eight weeks, or until the lobster has molted five or at most six times, and is three-fifths of an inch long, when it sinks to the bottom.
Fisk, 1951): The insects were sluggish and molted with difficulty.
Often the tubes in the soil ended in a chamber which the cockroach might not leave for several days; nymphs molted in such chambers and females bore their young there (Roeser, 1940).
Tauber suggested that the infection might be spread by contact, especially to newly molted individuals or by actual ingestion of the bacteria by the cockroaches feeding on dead or dying individuals.
Although Lederer (1952) successfully fed newly molted Periplaneta americana to insectivorous birds in the Zoological Garden, Frankfurt am Main, Blattella germanica were preferred by these birds.
German cockroaches may attack newly molted nymphs of their own kind and cause them to deflate (Gould and Deay, 1938).
This plumage is immediately molted to the adult plumage in the first autumn, except that certain birds, which I take to be females, have the slate-gray of the upper parts replaced by dark olive-brown.
In one freshly molted young male there was hardly any trace of the spots on the sternum.
The color, as in all spiders, varies according to age, the young and freshly molted having a deeper black color, while older ones are gray.
When freshly molted they are covered with fine gray hairs of the color of weathered boards, that obscure most of the markings.
This coat remains until the following summer or fall, when it is moltedand replaced by a new one.
As feathers in all stages of growth are found on the young bird at the same time, it is not known whether all feathers are molted the same number of times.
On the tail, the black tip itself, as clearly shown in more than a score of specimens, is molted at approximately the same time in autumn as is the pelage of the body.
I have considered the possibility that the black tip of the tail, in some species of Mustela, is molted only once while the remainder of the coat was undergoing two molts.
Schwalbe's (1893) work, including sectioning of the skin and study of the hair follicles, led him to conclude that the underfur was molted twice each year in Mustela erminea.
They say that the parties which go east, and those which visit the rivers in summer, get many eggs and find plenty of ducks, geese, and swans, which have molted their flight feathers so that they are unable fly.
Three primary feathers were newly moltedand of full length.
Four moltedprimary feathers of the adults were found.
The postnuptial molt begins in July, when the body plumage is molted before the birds migrate; the wings are molted after the birds reach their winter home, from December to February, not long before they started to migrate north again.
The body plumage is molted in the fall, the wings and tail in late winter, and the body plumage is partially molted again in the spring.
The complete postnuptial molt of adults is much prolonged; the body molt begins in August, but the wings are not molted until the bird reaches its winter home, beginning in October and often lasting until February.
The body feathers and some of the scapulars and tertials are molted during the fall, making the young bird almost indistinguishable from the adult.
The body plumage is molted first, mainly in August and September, and the wings later, mainly in October; specimens have been seen with primaries in molt in February and March, but these are probably abnormal.
This plumage is worn for only a short time, as the body plumage and tail are molted during the last half of July and in August.
The postnuptial molt of the body plumage occurs mainly in August and the wings and tail are molted in January and February.
The complete postnuptial molt of the body plumage occurs in August and September, but the wings are not molted until winter.
This beautiful plumage is worn for only a short time and is molted before the birds leave their northern breeding grounds.
This plumage fades somewhat during migration and the body plumage is mostly allmolted before October.
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