Assertion: caterpillar | /r/CapableOf | shed its skin
Facets:
value: several times
type: TEMPORAL
value: typically
type: DEGREE
value: before reaching adult size
type: TEMPORAL
value: in its short lifespan
type: TEMPORAL
value: usually
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: A caterpillar usually sheds its skin around four or more times in its short lifespan.
text: Since caterpillars grow quickly and much before turning into pupas, they need to shed their skin as it becomes too small for their bodies the same way snakes do.
text: The caterpillars shed their skins or molt six times before reaching adult size.
text: The caterpillar continues to eat and even sheds three or four skins as its parasitic wasp invaders slowly eat it alive from the inside out.
text: By small contractions of the muscles it begins to shed its skin and head revealing a soft pinkish tan form.
text: The body that the caterpillar reveals when it sheds its skin for the last time is the chrysalis.
text: The caterpillar sheds its skin.
text: As the caterpillar grows, it skin will spilt and molt or shed its skin.
text: It then sheds its skin over a period of a few minutes, revealing a green chrysalis.
text: Caterpillars shed their skin 4 (four) times until they are finally ready to move on the next stage.
text: Caterpillars shed their skin.
text: Indeed, caterpillars munch so much and grow so big during their brief lives that they typically shed their skin several times, often totally revamping their appearance from one slough-off to the next (called instars).
text: As the caterpillars mature they change color each time they shed their skin (which totals to five stages in the caterpillar's appearance).
text: Caterpillars shed their skin four or more times while they are growing.