Molting

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2. The ____________ hormone is produced in the corpora allata
4. This helps "digest" the old cuticle
6. Developmental stage between larvae and adult of holometabolous insects
9. Immature stages of holometabolous insects
12. Stage of molting when exoskeleton is shed
13. Ecdysone is secreted by the ___________ glan

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1. Immature stages of non-holometabolous insects
3. Juvenile hormones also aids in ____ production
5. Stage between molts
7. Stage of molting when outer cuticle separates from epidermis
8. Stimulates the release of molting fluid
10. Without juvenile hormones present an insect molts into an _______ .
11. Abbreviation for a man-made juvenile hormone used as a pesticide