"Gipsy moth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... destroyed by means of a hot needle the gonads in silkworm caterpillars (Bombyx mori), and found no difference in the sexual characters of the moths reared from such caterpillars. Oudemans had previously obtained the same result in the Gipsy Moth, Limantria dispar. Meisenheimer [Footnote: Experimentelle Studien zur Soma- und Geschlechtedifferenzierung. Jena, 1909.] made more extensive experiments on castration of caterpillars in the last-mentioned species, in which the male is dark in colour and has much-feathered antennae, ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham |
