Where do insects go in the winter?
In the summer, when the air is hot, insects are everywhere. But when temperature drops, the bugs seem to disappear completely until months later, like some kind of enchanted trick they reappear. Where did they go? Some survive as eggs, larvae, or pupae, while others live through the winter as adults. There are three different survival tactics that get insects through the winter: avoid the cold, don’t do anything and just freeze. Many insects survive the cold winters by simply avoiding them and heading south en masse as soon as the cold sets in. This includes going deeper into the pond or burrowing deep below the frost. Others just continue to live and adapt to the conditions around them. Then there are those insects that go dormant (diapause) a semi-frozen state some insects enter until they thaw out in the spring and crawl off as if nothing had happened. And lastly, there are the ones that actually freeze but still live through the winter. Ice forms inside their bodies, a lot of body processes shut down so they aren’t injured in the meantime.
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