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DURING the past five years, work has been in progress at Rothamsted on rearing in the laboratory a number of plant-feeding insects. One of the aims has been to maintain supplies of insects in large numbers throughout the year. This has necessitated a study of the factors affecting diapause, the quiescent phase in which most plant-feeding insect species spend late autumn, winter and early spring.
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WAY, M., HOPKINS, B. & SMITH, P. Photoperiodism and Diapause in Insects. Nature 164, 615 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164615a0
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