“…This shows that variations in the duration of the second, third, and fifth instars of D. maurus are related to the oil content of the cotton seeds. In general, when seed-sucking cotton stainer nymphs store more lipids, they accumulate less water in their bodies, which may increase metabolic water production to compensate for water deficiency, affecting their development period (Mishra et al, 2004;Sláma & Lukáš, 2016). However, this depends on juvenile hormone production and total metabolic lipid combustion in the diet, as reported for Pyrrhocoris apterus L. (Jindra et al, 2013;Vinokurov et al, 2014;Sláma & Lukáš, 2016).…”