“Internal excretion of a hormone with a steroid skeleton called ecdysteroid makes exuviation proceed in insects.”

“Developmental changes in epidermis and fat body are delayed to the same extent, thus maintaining proper temporal spacing of events required for successful exuviation.”

“Molting stage is composed of a series of successive processes including hypodermal cells activating, ecdysial fluid secreting, cuticular chitin and exoskeleton degrading, new epidermis formation, and old epidermis exuviation.”

“Two days later, we found the shed skin, the exuvia, of a broad-bodied chaser dragonfly beside our small, shallow pond.”

“With careful study, exuvia can actually be used to identify the species of dragonfly or damselfly that left them behind.”

“Strong cryptogeny: the female, with a fine membranous cuticle, remains enclosed in the exuvia of the second larval instar, which thickens and takes on a horn-like shape.”

“All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages.”

“Whether the retainment of exuviae is characteristic of the species is open to question.”

“Within 48 hours, we washed the samples, removing inorganic material and invertebrate cases and exuviae, and sieved them through 1 mm mesh.”

“I feed the cubs after their first exuviations, when they start to fully ingest.”