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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Molting











Just by luck I noticed this tiny grasshopper nymph (schistocerca nitens) molting. The part of the process photographed, which had started before I began watching, took about 10 minutes.

1 comment:

Cindy said...

I never get tired of watching this process, and always marvel at the detail of the exoskeleton, down to the last toenail. (or grasshopper equivalent thereof)