A Katydid is molting in the rainforest of Daintree, North-Queensland Australia. The "newborn" insect has not yet hardned and is white and soft to touc

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A Katydid is molting in the rainforest of Daintree, North-Queensland Australia. The "newborn" insect has not yet hardned and is white and soft to touch, while the old exoskeleton remains behind on the branch. After a few hours the new and bigger individual will change to brown colour and hardened.

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Keywords: arthropoda, australia, enisifera, insects, invertebrats, katydid, molt, molting, orthoptera, rainforest, tettigoniidae