Figure 2. A. Juvenile hormone III (JH) titer in the hemolymph of adult females of Blattella germanica, during the first vitellogenic cycle and during the period of ootheca transport. Values represent the mean ± SEM (n = 3–5). The 7c means 7-day-old females with basal oocytes during chorion formation. JH titer in females that are forming the chorion are further detailed in the inset, showing the values during early chorion formation (7ec), middle chorion formation (7mc) and late chorion formation (7lc). 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 females of B. germanica in the first vitellogenic cycle, according to data previously published (Maestro et al. 1994; Cruz et al. 2003) (n= 7–15), and during the period of ootheca transport (n = 3–5).