Grasshoppers and other insects can have larval stages {molt}|, in which epidermal glands make enzyme that breaks down inside cuticle. Then folded inner cuticle grows. Then water or air intake breaks hard outer cuticle. Then new cuticle hardens, using calcium carbonate.
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