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Insect Photoperiodism

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Biological Rhythms

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Insects, like several other major groups of organisms (flowering plants, birds, and mammals, for example), may use the number of hours of day or night to regulate seasonal cycles of activity, morphology, reproduction, or development. Such regulation is called photoperiodic induction. The use of day length (or photoperiod) to provide information on calendar time is advantageous to the organism because this geophysical variable is reliable, is relatively “noise-free,” and changes with a mathematical accuracy with both season and latitude. At least in natural diel cycles, photoperiodic induction involves a response to the number of hours of light (or dark) per day, which the organism apparently compares with an inbuilt standard, or critical day length (or night length). It differs, therefore, from a cir-cannual rhythm, which is known in at least one insect, the beetle Anthrenus verbasci (Blake, 1959), and which comprises an endogenous biological rhythm with a near annual periodicity entrained by the seasonal changes in day length (see Chapter 21).

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