to diapause

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• In addition, all females carry a diapausing blastocyst conceived a year before the birth of the new young, so it is extremely difficult to determine paternity in the wild population.

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• The surprise came from the Houston mosquitoes: the females exposed to the artificially shortened days also laid diapausing eggs.

  Academic text (1992)

• It successfully used, for the first time, a system of targeting insecticide applications to diapausing boll weevils and monitoring pheromone traps.

  Academic text (2003)

• Populations from Tokyo, at 35 degrees north latitude, go into diapause at 14 hours of daylight; those from Okinawa, at 26 degrees north latitude, diapause at 12.5 hours.

  Academic text (1992)

• If insects respond to increasing day length for triggering the termination of diapause, northern insects diapausing in a more southerly latitude (where winter days are longer) would be prone to break diapause early because of their habituation to short winter days.

  Academic text (1996)

• During extreme cold, some species of insects diapause to survive until warmer weather returns.

• Many butterflies diapause in the winter, waiting for spring before they emerge from their state of suspended development.

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