This tiny delicate shed skin was balancing on a leaf in the BYG. It was perhaps 3 mm in length, so small that I was afraid of squishing it if I picked it up to position it better. To be honest, shed skins are not my specialty! Many species of insect molt several times (about 4 to 7). This shedding of the old encasing exoskeleton, allows them to grow with each molt.