Insect cycles 4615 bytes Summary The life cycles of some insects are positively baroque Females of this species live only 2-3 hours as adults, and they must mate and lay their eggs within this short time To make matters even more precarious, egg laying is confined to sandy masses of red algae that are exposed only during the lowest ebbing of the spring tide The eggs develop into larvae that mature and pupate two lunar cycles later Here the the eggs are deposited and quickly covered by the sea This complicated life cycle is possible only by coordinating the insect 's lunar (i It would do an insect little good to become an adult if it were still too cold to fly or mate It appears, then, that the temperature can modify the insect 's response to photoperiod Insect Photoperiodism (second ed 15 .
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The life cycles of some insects
two lunar cycles L:later Here
to sandy masses of red algae
possible
T:still
by the sea
T:only during the lowest ebbing of the spring tide
into larvae
their eggs within this short time To make matters even more precarious
matters even more precarious
an insect little good to become an adult