Re: Cult: Borers

Greetings,

I was going to put up an inane wisecrack about the borer eggs apparently
needing cold, or possibly oscillating temperatures, to germinate when it
occurred to me that while it sounded pretty flip, Anner really don't know
nothing about birthin' no bugs and maybe I should ask Bill Shear something. To
wit:

Obviously insects have a range and a relationship with that range which
necessarily involves temperature of air and possibly soil, and obviously there
is a question of ongoing adaptation, but do any insects we know of have such
specific requirements for cold that if for some reason a winter season is
abnormally warm they would not hatch from egg or pupa? I'm not talking abut
being stirred to life prematurely and being zapped with the return to normal
colder temperatures, but an actual need for some degree or duration of cold?
We always hear that a warm winter means more summer bugs, but, in theory,
could it mean fewer of some other bugs? 

Anner Whitehead, pretty ignorant in Richmond, Va
Henryanner@aol.com
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