The exuvia is often consumed by the animal after moulting.

But, he said, "the exuvia didn't fit the description of any known species from North America."

It can also refer to the exuvia of bugs or small animals left behind after moulting.

After the moult, Phaeacius leaves the discarded exuvia hanging from the platform.

The old exoskeleton is referred to as an "exuvium" (or exuvia).

Approximately every 13 to 20 days, krill shed their chitinous exoskeleton and leave it behind as exuvia.

Though mostly complete the exuvia is missing the right foreleag, the left middle leg, a small section of antenna and the anteocular region.

Melaleuca exuvia is an Australian shrub.

When disturbed, a swarm scatters, and some individuals have even been observed to moult instantaneously, leaving the exuvia behind as a decoy.

The exuvia, or discarded empty exoskeleton of the nymph form, is commonly seen on tree trunks in gardens and bushland during the summer months.

After freeing itself from the old shell (now called an exuvia) the crab is extremely soft and hides until its new shell has hardened.

Other substances that may be eaten include cotton, linen, silk, synthetic fibres and dead insects or even its own exuvia (moulted exoskeleton).

Members of the family Conchaspididae secrete a waxy scale, in common with other scale insects, but the secreted scle does not include the exuvia.

Once out of the pupal exuvia (the pupal exoskeleton), the moth finds a horizontal surface, from which it suspends itself by its four anterior legs.

The newly hatched dragonflies spend after leaving the larval shell ( exuvia ) is the first time until full coloration in the vegetation surrounding the water body.

To date IBIs have been developed for fish, algae, macroinvertebrates, pupal exuvia (shed skins of chironomidae), vascular plants, and combinations of these.

The species is know from a single 5th instar female nymph exuvia found in Hymenaea protera amber from deposits in the Dominican Republic.

In the last ecdysis, the old cuticle splits and curls up into a small ball at the posterior end of the pupa and is known as the larval exuvia.

Pupae of Brachycera Cyclorrhapha have coarctate pupae in a puparium (a case formed by the hardening of the larval skin), formed by a modification of morphological and biochemical exuvia of the last larval stage.

Once the pharate adult has eclosed from the pupa, the empty pupal exoskeleton is called an "exuvium" (or exuvia); in most hymenopterans (ants, bees and wasps) the exuvium is so thin and membranous that it becomes "crumpled" as it is shed.

Researchers successfully collected a first instar exuvia and a specimen of a female Odonata along the Wilson River, which matches the description from an earlier specimen of a confirmed male Tonyosynthemis ofarrelli, therefore scientists have concluded that the female specimen collected is that of Tonyosynthemis ofarrelli.