Also, most specimens are molts, based on thickness of the carapace and posterior displacement of the sternal plastron. |
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Molting may continue into adulthood, and there may be more than forty molts in the life of a thysanuran. |
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At concentrations of 5 ppb and above, however, the number of molts increased with an average of one third of the animals undergoing molts. |
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Interpretations of food sources of micronekton could be helped by analyzing their molts or fecal pellets, which responded faster to a new diet. |
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Both specimens are probably molts, as only the dorsal carapace is preserved. |
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As the larva feeds and grows, it molts, shedding its cuticle. |
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Another subunit appears about the time of metamorphosis to first juvenile instar, and expression of a sixth subunit begins four or five molts later. |
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Maturation involves 7-8 molts, and molting continues into adulthood. |
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Post-embryonic development takes place during a series of four molts. |
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When a Uloborus emerges from an egg sac, its cribellum is not formed and it can not produce capture threads until it molts and enters the next developmental stage. |
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Together, they collect flotsam and wrack that tell of shipwrecks, shifting undersea tectonic plates, the birth and death of sea creatures, their migrations and molts. |
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One month later, lobstermen in Western Long Island Sound began to report sightings of gravid female lobsters dying in the throes of abortive molts. |
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A 1990 report, for example, said Archbold's bowerbirds decorate with plumes from a bird of paradise species that molts only two of the big feathers a year. |
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The larva molts again at 72 hours to become a third-stage larva. |
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He followed more than 1,200 caterpillars from the time they hatched, all the way through four molts and until they pupated. |
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Toward the end of the second album the photography burst into color to celebrate the vivid vestiture of her adolescent molts. |
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Therefore, the criteria for distinguishing fossil scorpion molts and carcasses may also be useful for distinguishing fossil eurypterid molts and carcasses. |
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Monitoring of rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, feeding behavior in maize seeds and the occurrence of supernumerary molts in low-humidity conditions. |
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