Friday, November 7, 2008

moulting!


I find this picture very interesting. You can actually see all the stages of moulting in here.

1 - 1st instars which haven't moulted
2 - moulting
3 - moulted (2nd instars - notice that they're not as fat as before and they resemble the adults more now)
4 - the leftover skin

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