does the weather affect the number of insects?
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Yes.  Haven't you noticed there are less flies in winter?  Mosquitoes lava needs water to develop so you get tons of mozzies after a good rain.  Bettles live in the ground until summer brings them up to the surface.  Its all about the seasons, insect life cycles and food availability.\n\nGood luck with you assignment.
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During the summer and autumn/fall, many fly species lay eggs in plants and things. The eggs hatch, and the larvae stay in the plant for the winter, developing into adults. In the spring they leave the plant and find a mate, and the cycle starts all over again.\n\nSome flies do not need to mate to reproduce, and their offspring are 'clones' of the mother. This is a very quick way of producing offspring, so the population increases very quickly when it becomes warm again.\n\nThe black flies you saw were probably lying dormant in some nooks and crannies somewhere. When the temperature drops, their body processes slow down and they 'hibernate'. When the temperature rises they become active again. Thats probably where you blackflies came from
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Mosquitos don't care to much about how cold it gets in their dormant phase, so long as there is some warm time for their active phase\n\nI have been savaged by Mosquitos in Alaska a couple of hundred miles north of Anchorage.\n\nI assume there are some of the little buggers that come out for the brief summer in Nome.
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Say you have a species of beetle.  There are two color types of the same beetle, say a lighter colored one, and it has a few darker colored beetles here and there.  The lighter colored beetles blend in better with their surroundings, so the darker colored beetles have a tendency to be picked off by birds or whatever.  Say a volcano erupts or something, and it causes a dark ash to settle all over everything, then the darker beetles will blend in more with the environment than the lighter ones, and then you have a population surge of darker beetles, because they are more suited to the environment.  Make sense?  I know what I'm talking about, I just can't describe it very well!
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The housefly has a complete metamorphosis with distinct egg, larva or maggot, pupal and adult stages. The house fly overwinters in either the larval or pupal stage under manure piles or in other protected locations. Warm summer conditions are generally optimum for the development of the house fly, and it can complete its life cycle in as little as seven to ten days, and as many as 10 to 12 generations may occur in one summer.
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It depends on the insect. Some die off leaving eggs behind to hatch next season (like the Praying Mantis). I have heard some critters replace the water in their bodies with glycerin so they don't freeze during the cold months.
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at this point, I am very concerned since only insects outnumber the birds in the world and they are airborn. The mutation could occur at any moment and infect humans. This is how the flu of 1917 or so occured and spread rapidly
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the answer is probably that if it is less than 40 degrees F, crickets die/hibernate and dont chirp at all. above 40, the formula would work, giving a positive number of chirps.
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Oh sure then.\nAnd I'll tell you what...\nBetween weather changes and Global Warming, a substantial number of upheavals are occurring in the life styles of many species, some to their unfortunate extinction when they change patterns and can't survive within the changed environment anyway.\nMankind is both a blessing and a curse!
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Of course it does.\n\nNo matter where you live or what you do, if you work you have to work regardless of the weather.
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it depends on the species, the soil condition, the amount of sunlight and the temp and wind or lack of.
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Of course. Organisms find winter stressful, starve in the spring, die in the heat of the summer, and produce offspring and die in the fall.
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Many kinds of bugs only live a year and then die off because either their food requirements cannot be filled or because they are susceptible to freezing. Many other species survive cold weather through a process called diapause. Diapause is a state insects enter into prior to unfavorable conditions becoming evident. At this time they become inactive and do not feed or reproduce, thereby using very little energy. They can remain in this condition until favorable weather returns.
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There are a number of factors, some of which are not so obvious. I will list a few.\n\nThe most apparent affect on weather by location is that of latitudinal variations in the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth. Because of the tilt of the earth's axis in relation to its orbit around the sun, we have seasonal weather patterns on most of the planet, and the Polar Regions receive so little solar energy that they can maintain frozen conditions such as permafrost and glaciers. \n\nThe second major effect on weather that is related to latitude is the Hadley Cell. Hadley cells circulate air upward near the equator and return it to the surface near 30 degrees north and south. Similar circulation patterns exist at higher latitudes known as Ferrel Cells and Polar Cells. You can see a diagram here:\nhttp://www.newmediastudio.org/datadiscov...\n\nVarious ocean currents have a large effect on the climate of many regions. The Gulf Stream in the Atlantic carries warm water northward, affecting the climate of eastern North America and Western Europe. Seasonal changes in Pacific Ocean circulation produce El Nino and La Nina events that affect both Asia, South America, and Western North America weather patterns. Hurricane patterns from the Atlantic that move westward towards the Gulf of Mexico and North America have major affects on the weather of that region. Likewise, typhoons forming in the western Pacific affect that region. \n\nThere are ongoing studies to investigate how the continued uplift of the Himalayas may be changing patterns of global weather by affecting the jet stream.\n\nhttp://ceaspub.eas.asu.edu/Singhal/Research/papers/globalwarming/GlobalWarming.htm
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This is directly dependant on temperature and food supply. It can be anywhere from 20 hours to a week, depending on the type of fly and the other factors I mentioned
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We do have them in the day, just they not show up as well. Many seem more numerous before dawn, because they best seen then or the angle they hit the atmosphere at that time. All I know.
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The blades of wind turbines kill birds and bats and tons of insects.\n\nThere is some evidence that the air turbulence disturbs weather patterns locally.\n\nThere are also problems related to making them in the first place, and when disposing of them when they are worn out.\n\nhttp://www.awea.org/faq/tutorial/wwt_environment.html