After eclosion, the 3-day-old females were anesthetized on ice and a total of 1 μL agomiR/antagomiR solution (20 μM) was injected into the ventral abdomen of female adults using an Eppendorf micromanipulation system (FemtoJet 5247; Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany) as described previously [65 (link)]. The same volume of random shuffled sequence was used as a negative control (NC). At 24 h post injection, flies were sacrificed to dissect the ovary and fat body for RNA extraction and the subsequent qRT–PCR analysis (10 flies in each treatment group). The miRNA mimic (agomiR), inhibitors (antagomiR) and negative control (NC) oligonucleotides were purchased from GenePharma (Shanghai, China). The sequences are listed in Table S2.