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Animal growth is controlled by a variety of external and internal factors during development. The steroid hormone ecdysone plays a critical role in insect development by regulating the expression of various genes. In this study, we found that fat body‐specific expression of miR‐276a, an ecdysone‐responsive microRNA (miRNA), led to a decrease in the total mass of the larval fat body, resulting in significant...