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THE problem of the relation of insect life to climate and weather conditions has always attracted naturalists, both from its scientific and its practical importance ; but most of the early work was qualitative rather than quantitative and, owing to the complexity of the problem, little real progress was made. Here and there, however, some of the results were expressed in the form of general laws, such as the 'hyperbola' relation between temperatures and length of development, and Hopkins' 'bio-climatic laws' relating to the dates of occurrence of biological events, including the outbreaks of certain insects.
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WILLIAMS, C. CLIMATE AND INSECT LIFE. Nature 157, 214–215 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157214a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157214a0