The juvenile hormone keeps it in its larval state until, near full size, its concentration declines. In the final caterpillar ...

This may have been caused by a tendency of the larvae to remain in the fruit beyond the necessary development time and for subsequent egression to be spread over a period of weeks. Duration of the pre ...

At the same time, specialized cells called imaginal discs start waking up ... so whenever the larvae smelled it, they'd move away. But even after they transformed into adult moths, they still ...