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The pea aphid ( Acyrthosiphon pisum : Hemiptera, Aphidoidea) ostensibly undergoes embryonic diapause as an over-wintering egg (figure 1).
Figure 3shows the growth of aphid embryos maintained at 10°C.
Insect–plant interactions might also vary in other ways between the hemispheres, as the rarity of showy autumn colours and the paucity of aphid species—which are thought by some to be a driver of these displays (Archetti and Brown 2004)—in south temperate areas suggests.
By this time the aphid would be fully developed and ready to hatch.
Once winter has commenced, diapause ends and the insect enters post-diapause quiescence, relying on persistent low temperatures to maintain developmental arrest [ 27 ] . This appears to be the case in A. pisum . The aphid clone used for the experiment would normally oviposit in mid-October, when the average daily temperature is 9°C with a maximum of 15°C [ 32 ] . By day 28 the embryos would be exposed to average daily temperatures of 3°C.