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John Cancalosi / Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor) shedding skin from head. Guanacaste National Park, Costa Rican tropical rainforest.
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John Cancalosi / Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor) shedding skin from head. Guanacaste National Park, Costa Rican tropical rainforest.
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B&S Draker / Cicada (Tibicen resh) adult emerging from nymph carapace. Sinton, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend, Texas, USA, June. Sequence 10 of 10.
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Alex Hyde / Spiny flower mantis (Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii) shedding skin. Captive, originating from Africa.
Pete Oxford / Moulting Katydid {Tettigoniidae}. Amazon, Ecuador
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David Hall / Male Rock Crab (Cancer irroratus) holding his female partner closely until ecdysis (moulting) occurs, at which time copulation becomes possible. Cape Ann, Massachusetts, USA. Atlantic Ocean.
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Nigel Cattlin / Cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) caterpillar after ecdysis with discarded moulted skin on Cabbage (Brassica oleracea) leaf, UK.
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Morley Read / Cockroach ecdysis. This cockroach nymph recently emerged from its old skin. It is soft and vulnerable while the new integument is hardening. Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, November 2018.
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Duncan Murrell / Jade green cicada (Dundubia vaginata) after ecdysis with exuvium, Gunung Mulu National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sarawak, Borneo.
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Duncan Murrell / Ecdysis of a cricket in Gunung Mulu National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sarawak, Borneo.
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Duncan Murrell / Ecdysis of a cricket in Gunung Mulu National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sarawak, Borneo.
