Word: larval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other discovery was essentially an accident. Williams' group found that a European bug would grow fairly well in the Bio Labs up until the last larval stage. Then instead of becoming an adult, it would become a giant larva and eventually die without reproducing...
Once anti-hoormone is developed, insects treated with the substance will skip their normal larval development and become miniature adults soon after hatching. Presumably the insects would be sterile, but "at any rate it makes the insect menace smaller," Williams said...