The Ecology Of Insect Overwintering

The study of insect overwintering has largely concentrated on a few well defined areas of study. Whether this has been the result of the understandable reluctance of entomologists to expose themselves to the rigours of the great outdoors during what is one of the more taxing times of the year or to the fact that the importance of the overwintering stage in relation to the population dynamics of a particular species has been underestimated, is a moot point.