0 present participle of moult
1 (of a bird or animal) to lose feathers, skin, or hair as a natural process at a particular time of year so that new feathers, skin, or hair can grow
On primary exposure they observed an inflammatory reaction provoked by developing larvae, their excretory/secretory products and sheaths left behind after moulting.
This indicates that cold temperatures act as an inhibitor by which larvae are held back at a moulting barrier.
Variations in extent of lectin binding within populations may be related to moulting.
Other changes in the culture medium resulted in reduced moulting and survival times compared with the pepsin-added media.
Note that all moulting and oviposition periods of the main cohorts are in summer.
The terminal parts of these sensory structures were shed at moulting.
Occasionally, larvae were found in the process of or having just completed moulting.
Feeding was suspended when larvae showed moulting behaviour.
