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Systemic hormones play a key role in coordinating this balance, yet how they regulate cell death in vivo remains unclear. Here, we investigate hormone-regulated cell death in a metabolically specialised organ using\n                  <jats:italic>Drosophila<\/jats:italic>\n                  oenocytes, polyploid hepatocyte-like cells, as a tractable in vivo model. Using non-invasive longitudinal live imaging combined with oenocyte-specific genetic manipulation, we directly visualise larval oenocyte death during metamorphosis. We show that larval oenocyte loss is a dynamic, multistep process controlled by the steroid hormone ecdysone. We further identify the ecdysone-induced nuclear receptor E75 as a key regulator of the timing of cell death, as loss of E75 triggers premature oenocyte death. Oenocyte-specific manipulation of cell death pathways, together with live imaging using genetically encoded caspase reporters, provides direct evidence that larval oenocytes die by apoptosis. 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