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Keywords: light is chiefly important in relation to behavior and as a stimulus for those mechanisms which regulate life-cycles and keep them in step with the seasons, Choristoneura fumiferana, the influence of light in synchronizing the life-cycle to the seasons, breeding seasons in vertebrates, Junico hyemalis, photoperiod, the influence of light on the inception and completion of diapause in insects, Bombyx mori, egg stage, Grapholitha molesta, mosquitoes, Aedes triseriatus, Anopheles barberi, Orthopodomyia pulchripalpis, Anopheles plumbeus, influence of light on synchronizing life cycles within a season, palolo worm Leodice fucata, moon light, Platynereis dumerilii, lunar cycle, oyster Ostraea edulis, coral Pocillopora bulbosa, Fungia actiniformis, Stylonichia, the behavior of invertebrates in a gradient of light, Acartia tonsa, Aphis forbesi, Aphis rumicis, photokinesis, Callphora erythrocephala Lucilia sericata, phototaxis, Sitophilus (=Calandra) granaria, Chortoicetes terminifera, reversal of phototaxes, Malacosoma, Neodiprion, Eristlis tenax, Leptinotarsa decimlineata, Culex pipiens, Aedes sylvestris, A. canadensis, Eristalis tenax, Homarus americaus, Daphnia magna, preferred illuminance, Agonum dorsale, influence of colored and polarized light, Popillia japonica, alternating light and darkness, daily rhythms of activity, sea anemone Metridium, Blatta orientalis, Gryllus assimilis, Boletotherus cornutus, Megalodacne heros, Spirbolus marginalis, Cambarus virilis, Drosophila pseudoobscura, D. melanogaster, D. funebris, D. auraria, D. simulans, Attagenus japonica, daily rhythms in edcysis, mating and oviposition, Aphodius howilli, Oncopera fasciculate, Dacus tryoni, Cydia pomonella, Bruchus obtectus, influence of light on growth, Tenebrio molitor