Yard work: Do wood bug shells turn white after death?
Self-tutoring about things ones encounters in the yard: the tutor mentions wood bug shells.
Yesterday, cleaning gravel along a foundation, I kept seeing white shells of deceased bugs. They looked like wood bug shells, but were white. Was I seeing the shells of an unfamiliar (to me) type of bug, can some wood bugs be white, or else what was the explanation? I looked it up.
Apparently, wood bug shells can turn white after death. Moreover, it seems, wood bugs molt (or moult), meaning that many of the shells I found may have been abandoned ones from which their occupants lived on.
Interesting, eh?
Source:
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.
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