“…These conditions, combined with the low humidity and high risk of desiccation, may have affected the time that post-feeding larvae spent searching for a suitable site to pupate and, if no suitable site was found, may also have contributed to the high mortality rate noted, especially when higher temperatures imposed additional physiological stress. Day and Wallman [17] reported that at 24°C, L. cuprina took an average time of 48 h to reach first ecdysis, 72h to reach second ecdysis, 96h to begin wandering, and 144 h to begin pupation. These values vary from those obtained in this study, which showed that at 24°C, larvae took on average 26.2h to reach first ecdysis, 56.2h to reach second ecdysis, 105.6h to begin wandering, and 165.0h to begin pupation.…”