This study deals with the endocrine control of sex pheromone secretion in an insect which has a short-lived non-feeding adult stage and lacks multiple reproductive cycles.

• 本文报道用定量生测方法发现在成虫期短、无多次生殖循环、成虫不取食的鳞翅目昆虫中存在内分泌对性信息素的控制。