Researchers attach electrodes to a moth during its pupal stage, when the caterpillar is in a cocoon undergoing metamorphosis into its winged adult stage. By attaching electrodes to the muscle ...

Recent research has led to the identification of a starter hormone responsible for initiating the transformation of caterpillars into moths ... a hormone that causes metamorphosis to advance ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Mar., 1979), pp. 41-47 (7 pages) Males or females of the almond moth, Ephestia cautella (Walker), a serious pest of stored commodities, were irradiated (I) ...