The Nauplii of all the Thoracica undergo a considerable number of moults before their appendages increase in number or segmentation of the body appears.
When the larva after one or two moults attains a length of six millimetres (fig.
In the subsequent moults the most remarkable new features concern the three posterior maxillipeds, which undergo atrophy, and are either completely lost or reduced to mere unjointed sacks (fig.
During thesemoults they grow larger, and the posterior part of the body--the future thoracic and abdominal region--grows relatively in length.
Twelve days later the larva becomes pale green in colour, and moults for the first time, after which traces of subdorsal and lateral lines present themselves.
In about a week it moults for the first time, and is then of an almost uniform brown, with the lateral lines faintly indicated.
This goes on till fall, several moults occurring the first summer to meet the increasing weight of the growing body.
The number of moults through which the larvae of silk-moths pass, varies.
The animal resides within two small valves, not unlike those of a bivalve shell, and moults its integuments annually, which the conchiferous mollusks do not.
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.
This process of feeding and moulting is continued for several weeks, the number of moults being usually four.
After a week or so it moultsand then continues feeding as before.
After about a week it becomes too large for the skin with which it was born, so it moults and immediately devours its cast skin.
It undergoes several successive moults during the next two or three weeks before it becomes full grown as a caterpillar.
This species also moults twice in the year: the male loses its tail for six months, and the white of its plumage becomes less pure.
I may observe here, that it moults in December or January, whence we may infer that it passes the winter in a southern climate.
It moultstwice in the year, once in autumn, and again in spring; it then requires river sand, and greater attention than at other times.
It grows fast and moultsseveral times, and when winter comes it hides away, only to come forth at the first breath of spring and continue its eating.
It moultsseveral times, and at last little short wings appear.
Yes, the caddice larva grows and moults in the usual way.
The baby locust eats and grows and moults until, finally, the wings begin to show as little pads at its sides.
Occasionally the shell moults or peels, the outer part coming off in great flakes.
There it feeds first as an internal parasite of the wasp-grub, then bores its way out, moults and devours the wasp larva from outside.
After eating the contents of the egg, the larva moults and becomes a fleshy grub with short legs and with paired spiracles close to the dorsal region, so that, as it floats in and devours the honey, it obtains a supply of air.
As the caterpillars pass their successive moults the hairs are transformed into branching spines or tubercles (see Plate III, Figs.
Ordinarily not more than five, and frequently only four, moultstake place between hatching from the egg and the change into the chrysalis.
When the insect is about to assume the pupa state, it moults its skin.
The adult state in these insects is attained after a number of moults of the skin, during each of which the insect gradually draws nearer to the final winged form.
The larva of the Meloidæ, therefore, undergo four moults before attaining the nymphal state; and after each moult their characteristics alter most profoundly.
The lobstermoults eight times the first year, five times the second, and three times the third year, after which the male moults twice and the female once a year.
It swims about for a while and moults several times.
He says of the plumages of the female: "The plumages and moultscorrespond to those of the male.
Dwight says: The plumages and moults correspond to those of the male.
The larva moults several times, and the wings are gradually added, the colour of the insect altering also.
The caterpillar in Europe ordinarily moults four times before passing into the cocoon stage; but there are races "a trois mues," and the Trevoltini race likewise moults only thrice.
These insects undergo four different moults before they become nymphs, and at each moult their appearance is completely changed.
At the end of April it moults for the last time, and is then pale ochreous generally, but some caterpillars are darker than this, and some paler with a greenish-grey tinge.
In April, after feeding again, it moults the second time, and the spines are then disclosed.
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