Why has the rhinoceros-beetle grub been selected as a specimen of moulting?
Because it is not the external skin only that these grubs cast, like serpents; but the throat, and part of the stomach, and even the inward surface of the great gut change their skin at the same time. Yet this is not the whole of these wonders; for, at the same time, some hundreds of breathing pipes, within the body of the grub, cast also each its delicate and tender skin. – Swammerdam.
