In seasonal environments, many animals, including insects, enter dormancy, where they are
limited to a fixed energy budget. The inability to replenish energetic stores during these …

Seasons impose different selection pressures on organisms through contrasting
environmental conditions. How such seasonal evolutionary conflict is resolved in organisms …

Insects have major impacts on forest ecosystems, from herbivory and soil-nutrient cycling to
killing trees at a large scale. Forest insects from temperate, tropical, and subtropical regions …

Conserving energy through winter is important for the fitness of temperate insects. While
insects can use buffered microhabitats, metabolic suppression or decreases in the thermal …

Insects have the capacity to significantly modify their metabolic rate according to
environmental conditions and physiological requirement. Consequently, the respiratory …

During the winter, animals face limited food availability. Many animals enter dormancy to
reduce their winter energy expenditure. Most insects spend the winter in diapause, a state of …

Overwintering insects are facing energetic challenges because of food shortage, low
temperature, and desiccation stress. Paper wasps of the genus Polistes overwinter as mated …