Hi everybody,
The French Musician needs some help... I'm translating my website and find anywhere the english word for "exuvie". This is the "old skin" which leave insects in the water when they emerge. Someone to answer to my S.O.S. ? TY.

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Possibly 'Shuck'

shuck

Neil

Hi there,

Do you mean the empty shuck left behind after the fly has hatched?

Rudolf

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Yes I do ! Thank you very much ! Avozetto will be soon available in english ! End of September I hope...

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exuviae and sometimes exuvia (singular).

Wow, really looking forward to the translated version!!! Been browsing it for quite some time now with the google translator but some of the terminology takes some getting used to lol. One of the SBS currently asks you to take the thread to the curvature and back to the carnation. For the life of me cant see any flowers near my bench!

Great website though, the english version will be an absolute treasure trove of information.

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Well done Endrick.

"Shuck" is one of the dreadful American words !

shuck [ʃʌk]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the outer covering of something, such as the husk of a grain of maize, a pea pod, or an oyster shell
vb (tr)
1. to remove the shucks from
2. Informal chiefly US and Canadian to throw off or remove (clothes, etc.)
[American dialect, of unknown origin]
shucker n

It is not ENGLISH

If exuva / exuvae is too scientific in context then surely LARVAL SKIN is better than SHUCK

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If you must split straws, it should be pupal skin, if at all, rather than larval. Most English/American people understand the term, "shuck" though! So use shuck on your website!

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Shuck Of unknown etymology the first attestation in a fishing sense from a Field of 1886: 'To secure the swiftly darting larvae.....before emerging from the "shuck"' from 'A book of words Fly-fishing' by C. b. McCully 1992.

or from The Scots Dialect Dictionary.

shuck v shook

shuck v to throw out of the hand, to chuck.

Or in other words to throw away or discard, which the pupa does with it's outer skin.

So perhaps Scots rather than American

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