Sentences with phrase «molted exoskeletons»
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Bed bugs molt during their life cycle, so they leave a lot of exoskeletons behind.
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According to Rasgon, people can react not only to the mites themselves but also to their exoskeletons, which are shed as the mites molt during their life cycles.
Four or five times along its road to moth - or butterfly - hood, a caterpillar molts to make room for a larger exoskeleton.
Because they're unable to form a new exoskeleton after the next molt, the fleas don't survive for very long.
Their shells do contain some calcium carbonate, but that is added only after a molt — and some of it is recycled from the previous exoskeleton — there is no continuous deposition, so the shells are not a significan CO2 sink.