Figure 1. A. Juvenile hormone III (JH) titer in the hemolymph of fifth and sixth nymphal instar females of Blattella germanica. Values represent the mean ± SEM (n = 3–5). Asterisks mean that JH III was not detectable under our conditions of analysis. B. Rates of JH III synthesis by corpora allata (CA) incubated in vitro from fifth and sixth nymphal instars of B. germanica, according to data previously published (Cruz et al. 2003)