She is back in Europe now and she showed signs of new maturity Thursday in a situation in which she might have lost her composure in other years.
"She showed the maturity, fighting day after day after day.
The generation time of P. xylostella in the insecticide resistance experiment was approximately 20 23 days (incrementally: egg, 3 4 days; larvae, 13 14 days; pupae, 3 4 days; adult time to sexual maturity, 1 day).
Will he leave me? Youth sucks - I'll take maturity any day.
When many hard rockers decide to try their songs out acoustically – to prove their song-writing worth or rest their battered cochlea – it often marks a Rubicon of maturity, the day the rock dies.
Males reached sexual maturity on day 6.
The flies were allowed to reach sexual maturity (8 10 day old) at 23.3°C before behavioral analysis.
Early traits included Early Albumen Height (EAH, mm), First 3 Egg Weight (E3, gr), Early Egg Weight (EEW, gr), Early Production (EPD, % egg production), Early Shell Quality (EPS, gr in pin point pressure), Sexual Maturity (SM, day) and Early Yolk Weight (EYW, gr).
Emerging females were maintained in 50×50×50 cm insectaries [ 7], with a maximum of 15 females per insectary, and used in the preference trials once they reached sexual maturity on day 8. Preference trials were conducted as explained for the first experiment above but with naïve, unmanipulated males or naïve, habituated males.
The debt reaches maturity next Thursday.
