The process of molting (also called "eclosion") is an interesting one. The bug actually grows a new skin (or exoskeleton) under the old one. When the new one is ready, it crawls out of the old one. A similar process happens all the way through the life cycle; the caterpillar grows inside the egg then chews its way out; caterpillars grow new skins and molt the old ones, finally molting into a pupa; the adult grows inside the pupal case and then emerges from within that. Interesting stuff! :-)

Is Molting like changing your old skin to a new one or exoskeleton becomes bigger

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Watching this completely made my day.

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man i loved this one so much its so nice

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Great Video !!I'm Agronomist, I knew all the process of the Butterfly's life cycle, but this is so Instructive.Thanks for the video !!

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how beautiful nature is! really amazing.. these little guys are so smart..I stumbled across this trying to learn more about a spiky black caterpillar we found in our yard today hehe

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There are several species like what you described, the "Hummingbird Moth" is actually the name of one of them. They are members of the Sphinx Moth family (Sphingidae)... a google search should land you quite a bit of info on them :-)

Stuff like this really interests me. Near where I live we have this curious little fat (multi colored) moth that can hover like a humming bird. Cute little things and they seem rather curious. Never have sorted out what they are though. Just know they're some kind of funny little moth.

Indeed - it's a basic, yet elegant method of adapting. It's been said that DNA molecules "learn" through the process of natural selection, the surviving gene states being passed on to progeny while non-surviving ones perish. Consequently, it may take several generations for them to learn something, but eventually they do. :-)