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For example, some insects (Seger 1983), such as the muddaubing wasp Trypoxylon politum, have a partially bivoltine life-history pattern: individuals that emerge in the spring produce some offspring that enter diapause and overwinter (delayed development) and some that pupate and emerge later in the same summer to produce a second generation (direct development) (Seger and Brockmann 1987, Brockmann and Grafen 1992, Brockmann 2004). Direct and 36 H. J. BROCKMANN AND M. TABORSKY delayed development is likely controlled by maternal cues (Tauber et al.
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