“…Hexamerins may simply be considered as 'storage proteins' (Fujii et al, 1989;Tojo and Yoshiga, 1994;Wang et al, 1993) or maybe repressed by juvenile hormone, and thus have been named 'juvenile-hormone suppressible proteins' (Jones et al, 1990(Jones et al, ,1988(Jones et al, ,1993. They provide energy in the form of amino acids essential for insect metamorphosis, diapause, egg development (Han et al, 2017), etc. Hexamerins may transport the hormones (Braun and Wyatte, 1996) and also possess certain immune activities, such as the inhibition of apoptosis (Lee et al, 2015;Rhee et al, 2007), antioxidant activity (Lee et al, 2017) and antifungal activity (Li et al, 2019;Ujita et al, 2005).…”