Process by which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body
"Sloughing" redirects here. For other uses, see Sloughing (disambiguation).
A dragonfly in its radical final moult, metamorphosing from an aquatic nymph to a winged adult.
In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.
In medieval times, it was also known as "mewing" (from the French verb "muer", to moult),[1] a term that lives on in the name of Britain's Royal Mews where the King's hawks used to be kept during moulting time before becoming horse stables after Tudor times.
Moulting can involve shedding the epidermis (skin), pelage (hair, feathers, fur, wool), or other external layer. In some groups, other body parts may be shed, for example, the entire exoskeleton in arthropods, including the wings in some insects.
^"Moult - Definition in the English-French Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Moult. Moulting in Pigeons Crayfish Moulting Video on YouTube Moulting in Chicken and other fowl Archived 2013-08-28...
Elliot Moult (born 14 May 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Scottish Championship club Dundee United. Moult, a prolific...
Edward Walker Moult (11 February 1926 – 3 September 1986) was a British farmer at Scaddows Farm near Ticknall, Derbyshire, who became a radio and television...
Thomas Moult (1893–1974) was a versatile English journalist and writer, and one of the Georgian poets. He is known for his annual anthologies Best Poems...
Daniel Moult (born 1973) is a concert organist, educator and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music. Daniel Moult was born in Manchester...
alternatives to moulting, such as expansion of the cuticle and collapse of air sacs to allow growth of internal organs. The process of moulting in insects...
its homologues) are generally called ecdysteroids. Ecdysteroids act as moulting hormones of arthropods but also occur in other related phyla where they...
undergoing ecdysis (moulting), or shedding the old exoskeleton, the exuviae, after growing a new one that is not yet hardened. Moulting cycles run nearly...
significance. Moulting Lagoon is so named because it is a traditional moulting place for black swans. It is an important site for waterbirds. Moulting Lagoon...
shedding of scales is called ecdysis, or, in normal usage moulting or sloughing. Moulting performs a number of functions: firstly, the old and worn skin...
after a moult. Moulting occurs in two halves, with the rear half moulting before the front half. The exuvia (the thing that is being moulted) is often...
the tip of the shaft encases the feather itself in a waxy coating. As moulting birds preen, they remove the waxy coating, and the feather unfurls. When...
isopods differ from other crustaceans in that moulting occurs in two stages known as "biphasic moulting". First they shed the exoskeleton from the posterior...
or pseudometanauplius. Moulting occurs whenever a specimen outgrows its rigid exoskeleton. Young animals, growing faster, moult more often than older and...
earlier in the year. Their moult follows a pattern similarly prolonged as that of the female. The first sign that the male is moulting is often when a tail...
The Bottomless Perdition / The Moulting (2017) Cerulean Salvation (2018) The Bottomless Perdition (2016) The Moulting (2016) Cryptic Transmissions (2017)...
have to keep moulting many more times to become adults. They are covered with a hard shell, which would otherwise prevent growth. The moult cycle is coordinated...
opt 'eight' multum mucho muy muncho muy muito mui munchu mui moito moi muito molt molt (arch.) très, beaucoup, moult meda molto mult 'much, very, many'...
Moulting requires metabolic energy, and the larger the lobster, the more energy is needed; 10 to 15% of lobsters die of exhaustion during moulting, while...
virtually indistinguishable from the time of hatching until their first moulting. They display horizontal yellow stripes or bars on the ventral surface...
allata also produces juvenile hormones, and the prothorocic glands produce moulting hormones. In the digestive system, the anterior region of the foregut has...
This species moults gradually beginning in March or April until September or October each year. Moulting usually decreases in winter. Moult of the contour...
Global Information