shedding vs molting

shedding and molting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shedding	Yes	No	No	No
molting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, molting is a hyponym of shedding; that is, molting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than shedding:

shedding: the process whereby something is shed
molting: periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles

Other hyponyms of shedding include abscission, ecdysis, molt, moult, moulting.

shedding (noun)	molting (noun)
loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales	periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
the process whereby something is shed