woodlouse shedding
Common Shiny Woodlouse shedding it's skin on the 2nd stage. In the moulting process the woodlouse finds a place away from all danger (including cannibalism) and then shed's its skin in two stages. First the rear and then the front. They often eat the shedded skin.
Size: 5360px × 3560px
Location: Kimberley Park, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
Photo credit: © Kelsey Finch / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: arthropod, asellus, common, exoskeleton, insect, isopod, lice, louse, moult, moulting, oniscidae, oniscus, shed, shedding, shiny, wood, woodlice, woodlouce, woodlouse
