John Cancalosi / Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor) shedding skin from head. Guanacaste National Park, Costa Rican tropical rainforest.

John Cancalosi / Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor) shedding skin from head. Guanacaste National Park, Costa Rican tropical rainforest.

B&S Draker / Cicada (Tibicen resh) adult emerging from nymph carapace. Sinton, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend, Texas, USA, June. Sequence 10 of 10.

Alex Hyde / Spiny flower mantis (Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii) shedding skin. Captive, originating from Africa.

Pete Oxford / Narrow winged katydid (Tettigonidae) moulting, Yasuni NP, Ecuador, sequence 4/4

Pete Oxford / Moulting Katydid {Tettigoniidae}. Amazon, Ecuador

Duncan Murrell / Jade green cicada (Dundubia vaginata) after ecdysis with exuvium, Gunung Mulu National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sarawak, Borneo.

Duncan Murrell / Ecdysis of a cricket in Gunung Mulu National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sarawak, Borneo.

Duncan Murrell / Ecdysis of a cricket in Gunung Mulu National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sarawak, Borneo.

Duncan Murrell / Jade green cicada (Dundubia vaginata) after ecdysis with exuvium, Gunung Mulu National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sarawak, Borneo.

Nick Garbutt / Leaf mimic bush cricket or 'katydid' (unknown species, family Tettigoniidae) in the middle of moulting its skin. Moulting from one sub-adult stage (instar) to another is known as ecdysis. Mont...

Cyril Ruoso / Emperor dragonfly (Anax imperator) adult male freshly emerged from larval case. Burgundy. France, April.