molt

Versatile and resilient, the lobster survives by molting, shedding its skin and growing into a new, bigger shell.

After years underground, periodical cicadas — insects of the genus Magicicada — are emerging by the trillions across more than a dozen states to molt, sing, court and mate.

Mr. Rave says that after the eggs hatch, many of the mothers go off to molt.

Then cold weather forced crawfish to go dormant, temporarily pausing the species’ feeding and molting process simultaneously, Shirley adds.

But after molting several times, the avian vampire flies become large, plump maggots that are strong enough to drill into the chicks’ flesh.