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CAN INSECTS SURVIVE FREEZING?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. H. Lyman
H. H. Lyman
Affiliation:
Montreal.
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In a foot note to his paper on “The Butterflies of Laggan” (Can Ent., XXII., 129), Mr. Bean says: “I hope none of my younger readers entertain the absurd mediæval superstition that hibernating caterpillars pass the winter in a frozen condition. In succesful hibernation they do not get near to such a condition; but if they do absolutely freeze, then are they undone caterpillars.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 1892 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1892

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* Read before the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, November 25th., 1891.