Blatta orientalis tanning process
VII instar nymph -> adult newly molted -> -> -> fully tanned adult
To obtain the above picture, numerous cockroaches going
through the molting process, relatively
synchronously, were obtained by applying the principles of feeding-regulation
of the cockroach molting cycle first described in
Kunkel (1966).
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