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Is winter coming?

Entocast

English - July 01, 2017 22:12 - 45 minutes - 26 Bytes - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
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Insects are incredibly dependent on the surrounding temperature and environment, so how on earth do they survive winter? Where do they all go? That's what we're trying to find out this episode, and helping us with it is our supervisor Dr. Scott Hayward.

Insects are incredibly dependent on the surrounding temperature and environment, so how on earth do they survive winter? Where do they all go? That's what we're trying to find out this episode, and helping us with it is our supervisor Dr. Scott Hayward.

Show Notes

After interviewing our supervisor Scott he drank from a spiffing mug #podcast #marketinggenius

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Evolution of insect freeze tolerance

Hemispheric differences in insect cold tolerance

Good introductory Diapause paper

Intro music is by the lovely Kevin MacLeod at incompetech, find more of his music here.