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How often I see feathers molting to the ground-what's left of something in which nothing's to be found.
Snyder and Mulder reported that exposure of Homarus americanus larvae to the cyclodiene pesticide heptachlor can cause a delay in molting.
In modern lobsters, the carapace material is partially resorbed prior to molting, making the carapace thin and weak.
Each time the caterpillar grows bigger, it sheds its skin in a process called molting.
When the lobster grows, it undergoes a process called molting, when the animal sheds its old exoskeleton and grows a new, larger one.
These results are in agreement with a report from the Oregon coast of a location that is also a harbor seal molting but not pupping area.
This chemical is a growth regulator that inhibits the molting process in grasshoppers.
In general, healed injuries are considered to have resulted from trauma during molting or wounds by predatory attack.
Thus plumage soiling not only provides instant camouflage but, unlike molting, is easily reversible.
It is not long after this molting is complete that they start a second molt to acquire their alternate plumage.
Both the molting process and the metamorphic transformation from larva to pupa are coordinated and regulated by hormones.
All of these tissues, except the salivary gland, are considered necessary for the process of larval molting.
We also excluded all individuals that were molting flight feathers and birds recaptured less than 7 days after their first capture.
After incubation begins, the males migrate to molting grounds where they gather and go through a period of flightlessness.
Young fish, young crabs and molting crabs have lost shelter and refuge from their predators.
As no mother-pup pairs were observed, these ledges are molting but not pupping ledges.
The molting style of isopods provides the final problem for the interpretation of fossil isopods.
There is no clear evidence to differentiate encrustation prior to molting from postmortem encrustation on the external surface of carapaces.
Now that the races are coming to an end, it's good to think a bit about the molting period.
To calculate the flight-feather molt score of a molting bird, it is necessary to accurately estimate how long each flight feather will be when it is fully grown.
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However, nymphs after the fourth instar occasionally set upon other molting nymphs.
These squirrels, taken in June and July, are molting on the sides, back and rump.
By far the greater number of birds are caught during the molting season.
The molting is an interesting process, and can be readily observed.
It is especially recommended for use during the molting season.
The extent of the molt line, if the vole was molting, was recorded.
During the molting process, even the outermost layer of skin covering the eyes will peel off.
During the summer, lobsters shed their shells, molting to grow into new and larger ones.
Annual molts and interruption of the fall migration for molting in lazuli buntings.
It was molting into the next pelage, and its hide was unprime.
In the last years of Elizabeth, Puritanism was molting, not dying.
The tasty decapods are presently molting reclusively rather than wandering around our pots to feed.
After molting, the lobsters were fed the AXT diet, which introduced the pigment astaxanthin to the lobsters and initiated color changes in the shell.
A rare gene in a small number of species causes the skin to change colour during molting, but because this makes the creatures so conspicuous, few survive.
The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of long-term pyrene exposure on molting and reproduction in the model estuarine invertebrate, the grass shrimp.
Color differences between summer and winter pelages in molting individuals usually was negligible and, given poorly defined molt lines, molt often was inconspicuous.
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