Sentences with diapause
di·a·pause
D d - Eggs hatching from diapause introduce to current environments species or genotypes laid at times in the distant past.
- These ridges indicate the period of diapause during the winter or unfavorable environmental conditions, such as lower water level or lack of food.
- Their reproductive cycle is characterized by a period of embryonic diapause, during which the blastocyst suspends implantation and development.
- They continue this pattern until they diapause in the leaf litter, where they over-winter, emerging in the spring as orange caterpillars with numerous dark brown, tufted spines.
- Many of the insects that go into diapause are eggs and pupae awaiting the arrival of spring and its bounty of food before hatching into adults, Holscher said.
- Eggs diapause over winter, and development resumes after the spring thaw.