"Some men have called me an ecdysiast. Do you know what that means? An ecdysiast is one who, or that which, sheds it's skin. In vulgar parlance, a stripper. But I'm not a stripper. At these prices, I'm an ecdysiast!" - From the movie Gypsy -------------------------------------------------------- The molting of the exoskelton.
Example: A grasshopped sheds its exoskeleton in the early morning