On leaving the nest they, accompanied by their parents, seek a more favorable situation until after the moulting season.
It is only in themoulting season that he does not sing.
A final moulting sets free the wings also, and the insect, now perfect, launches itself into the air with its congeners.
After moulting four or five times it has almost reached its full growth, and its wings begin to appear under a sort of membrane.
The duration of the time occupied in moulting varies with the degree of the heat or humidity of the atmosphere; but in general the state of sleep lasts from twelve to twenty-four hours.
This skin remains sticking to the plant on which the moulting was effected, preserving the shape of the insect.
If heavy with fat from too rich a diet in the summer, less of the fat-producing foods makes a better moulting diet.
Illustration: Racks over feed pans prevent waste and soiling food] Moulting is a perfectly natural process but it occurs at the end of the season and the chickens are often in a low state of vitality.
On the fourth day it is best to change the beds, as the droppings from the worms and the litter of uneaten leaves are not healthy for the moulting caterpillars.
When the period of moulting has been accelerated, the age at which the colours of the adult plumage are first developed will falsely appear to us to be earlier than it really is.
On themoulting of the ptarmigan, see Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain.
Cliges goes to the tower and comes away bravely and openly, for he has lodged a moulting falcon there, and he says that he goes to visit it; thus no one can guess that he goes there for any other reason than for the falcon.
The dry or lean beavers are the skins of the animals killed during the moulting season; they are not much esteemed, as the skin is rather bare.
Mere angry poultry in moulting season; whom Brunswick's grenadiers and cannoneers will give short account of.
This process of moulting is repeated two or three times at intervals during the life of the insect.
After the last moulting the worm climbs the brambles placed to receive it, and spins among them its cocoon.
On May 2 a worm which had just finished its fourthmoulting was examined.
In their moulting and progress to maturity they resemble preceding species.
In theirmoulting the Limicolae are most interesting.
The phenomenon of the alteration of colour in the plumage of birds, and especially in Limicoline species, without moulting or an absolute change of the feathers, is a profoundly interesting one.
The worms were about one-sixteenth of an inch long, but the first week of moulting shows them to be half an inch long and the second week one inch.
For the third moulting they are placed on perforated paper, through the holes of which the worms crawl.
During the moulting season beginning properly at the end of September, the fowls will require a little extra attention.
His rumination ended in a doze, and his doze in a dream, in which he fancied himself a Brobdignag Java sparrow during the moulting season.
Moulting takes place, as a rule, at regular intervals, though there are exceptions to this rule.
Fahrenheit, the moultings will be hastened; and only five days will be consumed in moulting the third or fourth time, whilst those worms that have not been hastened take seven or eight days.
Both larvæ were active, but the moulting one had now completed its ecdysis.
The embryos set free in the stomach bore their way to the liver and other viscera, in which organs encystation and moulting subsequently take place.
Experiments on sheep, made with these moulting larvæ, led only to negative results.
Wapi and his Indians were going, and he heard now a weird and growing chant, a savage paean to the wild gods of the Moulting Moon.
I'm sorry, but we can't get the heathen away any earlier because he says it's good luck to start a journey at sunset in the moulting moon.
After a time I began to let him out for an hour or two, first releasing him when he was moulting and could not fly very easily.
But no amount of care could bring him through the moulting season, the lack of a beak to plume his feathers and his great difficulty in picking up even the mealworms made him weak and sickly.
After his summer moulting he became wonderfully vigorous, and would fly round the room with such velocity that I often felt afraid he might some day fly against the plate-glass windows and injure himself.
My tiny pet lived happily for about a year, but when the moulting time came she grew weak and ill, and did not seem to have strength to produce her new plumage; for, in spite of all possible care, she drooped and died.
Some birds are still busy with their second or even third broods, but the moulting season is coming on, and that is ever a time of moping and of silence.
Moulting is nearly universal; there is almost a complete cessation of music, and gregarious instincts are becoming stronger.
Hempseed is most strengthening during moulting time, and should then be given freely, especially in cold localities.
Do not feed on raw meat; it makes fowls quarrelsome, and gives them a propensity to peck each other, especially in moulting time if the accustomed meat be withheld.
Fowls moult later each time; the moulting occupies a longer period, and is more severe as it becomes later, and if the weather should be cold at its termination they seldom recommence laying for some time.
They lay regularly on an average five fine large eggs a week all the year round, even when snow is on the ground, except when moulting or tending their brood.
Therefore, by having pullets and hens of different ages, and moulting at different times, a healthy laying stock may be kept up.
In moulting the /Macrura/ split in the longitudinal line down the back; in the /Brachyura/ the split occurs across the body at the point between the thorax and the abdomen.
This stage is a short one, and at the first moulting changes to a form nearly approaching the adult.
As the time of moulting approaches, the old covering becomes loosened, and a delicate new one is formed beneath it.
The young are out of the nest and must be cared for, and the moulting season is at hand.
It being August, the birds were all moulting and sang only fitfully and by brief snatches.
By that time it will again have reached its limit of growth within this second skin and the process of moulting must be repeated.
They then feed again and continue this process of feeding and moulting until early in summer.
This process of feeding and moulting is continued for several weeks, the number of moults being usually four.
The eggs hatch during the latter part of September and the young caterpillars feed upon the violet leaves for two or three weeks, moulting perhaps twice and becoming approximately half grown.
During the actual moulting the caterpillar is quite active in freeing itself from the exuviae.
This process of moulting and feeding continues for two or three weeks, the caterpillar occasionally making a new covering as needed for its food supply.
It continues to feed and grow for several weeks, moulting regularly until it becomes full fed as a caterpillar.
A week or so later it moults for the second time, and continues these processes of feeding and moulting until full grown, which is perhaps a month from the time of hatching from the egg.
During the next three weeks, this moulting process is repeated three times, the caterpillars becoming larger each time, and leaving their cast skins upon the denuded twigs.
It continues to feed through July and the early part of August, moulting once or twice before it begins to form the winter case.
But the crustacae, in their moulting time, see themselves and feel themselves as they are, suddenly hurled from energetic and terrible life and power to the most complete impotency.
The bird in its moulting time is sad and silent; still more sad is the poor snake when it casts its skin.
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