moult BrE
molt AmE

The female is only receptive for a short time just after moulting.

They feed for 3-5 days before dropping off and moulting.

Spiders stop feeding some time before moulting, usually several days.

Moulting is rapid in this species compared with other birds, taking only around 34 days.

By moulting, a bird can replace old feathers with new ones.

The body hair was moulting; patches of bare skin showed.

The breeding season is between late summer and autumn, shortly after moulting.

The birds are all moulting consequently in a bad state being our excuse, so have killed many other things.

When they are moulting, some species' colors might change.

He worked on migration of birds and moulting patterns extensively.

The national park is therefore an important resting and moulting area for seabirds.

In a laboratory, they do not spin silk for moulting or resting.

In particular, individuals which delay moulting become red-coloured rather than green.

The nymph feeds and grows, moulting its skin several times.

Mostly for birds in either breeding, growing, moulting and/or recovering conditions.

Moulting may cause seasonal variations in the color of the dorsal surface.

They can act especially defensive for days after moulting; this may be innate in the spiders behavior.

"It has always been my pride to lay a fresh egg every morning, except when I'm moulting.

Some species have been known to eat their own exuviae after moulting.

The purplish sheen of the cap is most prominent just after moulting.

However, individual variation, particularly in juveniles and also during the months before moulting, can often be greater than geographic differences.

There is no way to stop moulting, which is a natural biological process, but you can control where the hair goes when it falls out.

After about a month of moulting their exoskeleton several times, they mature into adults with working wings.

After moulting a few times, it spins a cocoon and pupates.

The most familiar example of moulting in reptiles is when snakes "shed their skin".

They molt for the last time in May of the next year.

Molt from winter to summer early in the spring and 2.

Their white coat is molted at around three weeks to a month.

I never did figure out which metals the company molted, or why.

"On top of that, they molt two or three times a year more than other species."

That would cause the panels to molt - to fall away, one at a time.

You molt your nervous system and literally grow a new one.

Since this cannot stretch, the animals must molt to grow.

During the nymph stage, they molt up to seven times.

All the paint was peeling, and the house looked as if it were molting.

The male should not be close to molting either.

It takes them three or more years to molt.

They are blue crabs that have molted their hard shells.

Crabs begin to molt at the first sign of warm weather.

They will latch on to the animal, usually for three to four days, then fall off and eventually molt.

The larvae molt six times during the first year.

Molting and breeding nests are similar, but use much more silk.

Peregrine, her feathers molting, was unable to take to the air.

After molting, these crabs will eat their own shell to get some important nutrients.

Hunting was done outside the breeding season when the birds were molting and could not fly.

From that narrow opportunity, he molted into a competitive politician and became the people's choice in a difficult time.

But by 1995 he had already molted again.

"To adapt, the bugs would have to molt their whole skin.

Pill bugs will molt several times in their life.

A wire mesh top should also be used, to give the animal another purchase from which to molt.

And Moult was seen leaving by that door over there.

Moult was there already, all dressed up for the part.

My poor old Moult,' said the colonel with a break in his voice.

Moult signed a professional contract with city on 19 March 2010.

The time for such a moult was at hand.

Each new pair becomes functional only at the next moult.

The moult of the flight feathers may be spread out across the year.

The first moult is at the end of winter.

In the case of females, another moult occurs before adulthood.

The speed of the moult can vary somewhat within a species.

The secondary moult is not orderly, the 8th and 7th being dropped earlier than the rest.

These birds go through one moult in a year.

The scales however grow larger in size and may change shape with each moult.

- and how many lies Moult has told - Oh, every thing!

The larvae make a new case after each moult.

The larvae increase in length and width with each moult.

Then, at eight to eighteen months, the curls return with the first full adult moult.

Some nest building occurs throughout the year, especially after moult in autumn.

The staff would be unlikely to notice Moult unless he drew attention to himself.

Perhaps they would think that Moult had burst it.

The male changes into adult plumage in March, the change taking place without a moult.

So they cooked it up that Moult would do it.

He might even advise about Moult or would that be anti-protocol?

In spring, the moult is slow, starting from the forehead, across the back, toward the belly.

After one more moult, the crab is a juvenile, living on the bottom rather than floating in the water.

The first molt is at the end of the winter.

Males usually live about 5 years or up to 12 months after the last molt.

It was much too soon to begin contemplating the Molt.

This was not going to be any trivial Molt after all.

A proper Molt was not supposed to go this way.

Each one of these stages is separated by a molt.

And, of course, one had to consider the effects this tragedy would have on the Molt.

The young go through three molts over the course of several years before reaching adulthood.

Adulthood is reached for most species after several months and many molts.

It emerges from molt as either an adult female or male.

Molt watched a small helicopter setting down in a field nearby.

Of course it would know that consensus was never perfect at this early stage in a Molt.

It undergoes a molt in late winter to early spring.

Earwigs have five molts in the year before they become adults.

But there was no hurry to begin the Molt.

Adult females are orange for at least a week after the final molt, and become black a few weeks later.

Gone was the painful leanness; he had been through several molts.

Mating takes place as soon as she has her final molt.

It is a gradual molt, which lasts until early autumn.

A post office was first established in the Molt area in 1909.

But as pre molt approaches do not feed it for at least a week or two.

I'm on the verge of going into molt, and that always makes me short-tempered.

There are usually several molts before an insect reaches the adult stage.

After swimming they settle, and begin the first molt.