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This paper is concerned with the phenological implications of emergence, i.e., the resumption of development and activity, by temperate zone insects which undergo a hibernal diapause. More specifically, it describes and considers the adaptive significance of the polymodal emergence curves which my co-worker, Dr. James G. Sternburg, and I have found to be typical of Hyalophora cecropia and of some populations of Callosamia promethea. It also discusses some of the accounts in the literature of the polymodal emergences of other temperate zone insects, and suggests a classification of polymodal emergence patterns.
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Waldbauer, G.P. (1978). Phenological Adaptation and the Polymodal Emergence Patterns of Insects. In: Dingle, H. (eds) Evolution of Insect Migration and Diapause. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6941-1_6
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