!!!INSECT MOLTING TIME LAPSE!!! (Insect Exoskeleton & Structure) SCIENCE EXPERIMENT
Crazy Chris is checking out insect exoskeletons and shows you a nifty way to model molting and make your very own exoskeleton!
Objective: To understand why insects shed thier skeletons
Materials Needed:
~ Container
~ Water
~ Flour
~ News Paper
~ Balloon
Step 1) Start by making up a batch of paper machie glue. Start by filling a container with some water and then pour about 3-5 cups of flour into a container and mix this untill you get a soupy paste.
Step 2) Blow up a balloon and twist the neck of the balloon and close it off with a clothes pin. Then cover the balloon with 2-3 layers of soaked news paper strips.
Step 3) Let this sit and dry for about 12-15 hours making sure the shell has not dried out completely. Now peal the strips from the neck of the balloon and pull and tug on the balloon until the balloon pops out. DO NOT RIP THE SHELL
HOW DOES IT WORK:
Unlike you and I which have skeletons on inside of our bodies and expand as our skeleton grows, insects dont have a skeleton on the inside of their bodies. Instead insects have whats called an exoskeleton or an external skeleton that surrounds their body. These skeletons are made of plates of a plastic like substance called chitin and protein with a waxy coat covering. Although this frame work is highly efficient, their skeleton cant expand with their bodies. So insects under go a process known as molting or shedding their skeleton. Insects do this by expanding air sacs or filling tracheal tubes with air to expand their body. This causes the exoskeleton to split allowing the insects to pull themselves out. They keep their bodies filled with air until the outer layer of their bodies forms a new bigger exoskeleton. Finally once dry they let the air out of their bodies giving them room to grow into their new skeleton. Insects repeat this process through out their entire lives sheding and increasing the size of their exoskeletons.
Insect Molting Videos Provided By:
Possumburg: Cicada Molting Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCX6s...
Amerilopez: Cricket Molting Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJtXn...
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!!!INSECT MOLTING TIME LAPSE!!! (Insect Exoskeleton & Structure) SCIENCE EXPERIMENT
