where do insects live in the winter?
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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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It is in the range of 15 to 30 days depending on the season.\nVisit:\nhttp://www.kidzworld.com/site/p5758.htm\nhttp://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/Entomology/lifecycles/imagePages/fly_lifecycle.html
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yes, bears do hibernate in winters they eat all that they can eat... they also eat soil to block their digestive system to go out the other side... but bees are social insects.... they stay in their hives in winter, they dont hibernate, they just stay there and with the helping hands of each be they keep their self warm by clustering their selves together and uses their wings to regulat the temperature inside the hive... same tecnique is used in summer only they dont cluster during this season..
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The North American moth, or forest tent caterpillar makes its home in usually deciduous trees such as oak, gum, aspen, and sugar maple trees which they strip of leaves. So it does not need to travel very far to lay its eggs, just as far as the next tree.\n\nHundreds of kilometers it says at the very bottom of this link I've included. A hundred kilometers is about 60 miles.
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No insects sleep, in the traditional sense. They go into something called "diapause." What happens is at night in temperate climates, the air temperature drops to levels at which the insect can no longer function normally. They get sluggish, find a safe place to hide, and stay there, in a nearly "frozen" state, completely inactive until the sun rises and temperatures increase. \n\nFor ants in tropical climates, the air temperatures usually do not get chilly enough for them to go into diapause and they work throughout the night, never sleeping.\n\nSo the answer is true.
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Only bees make honey.  They have been making honey for at least 100 million years as a source of food for the bee colony during the winter months when flowers are not blooming and no nectar is available.  Unlike most insects, bees are active all winter, so they need the honey to eat and metabolize so they don't freeze to death.  Because some bees produce far more honey than the hive could possibly use over the winter months, we get to have honey to eat.\n\nMany species of insects also consume the nectar from flowers, but only bees refine and concentrate the nectar to make honey.
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The real reason why there are more insects in the summer than the winter is because the summer provides an ideal environment for eggs to hatch.  Hot muggy conditions provide moisture and is more conducive for procreation.  The mortality rate of insects also is less because of these ideal living conditions "assuming all other factors being equal" therefore we find more insect during the Summer period versus the winter
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cluster flies sometimes hide out in the nooks and crannies of a warm house or barn over the winter, venturing out to fly around only on milder winter afternoons.\n\nOutdoors, the house fly will die with the onset of colder weather. However, it can over winter indoors if a source of food is available.
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They are less active in winter but they don't migrate. It was just looking for a place to rest for a minute that offered a little shelter from the weather.
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After the last of several molts the larva is transformed into a pupa with a hard, often sculptured outer integument, within which it changes to the adult form. The butterfly pupa is called a chrysalis, or chrysalid. Most chrysalids (unlike the pupae of most moths) are not enclosed in a cocoon; however, they are usually suspended from some object by a silken thread and may have a partial covering. Except in those species that winter in the pupa stage, the adult usually emerges from the integument in two or three weeks. Members of some species winter in the egg stage, others as larvae or adults. The adults of most species, however, live only about a month.
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If only they would die!!\n\nHOWEVER...\n\nNot only can some of the mosquito eggs survive the winter, it is shown that even some adult females (the biting ones) may survive as well.  Granted, most do not.  \n\nEggs are by far the hardiest.  There have been cases where eggs have survived up to 7 years before hatching (in areas where a hard freeze occurs in the winter).  Although the likelihood of an egg surviving decreases exponentially each year, some always seem to make it.  This also explains why the number of mosquitoes can be so overwhelming after a region gets a great deal of precipitation (causing areas that normally don't have standing water during rainy seasons to have standing water).  Not only are you dealing with the mosquitoes from the current year, but all of the eggs hatching from the previous years that did not have enough water for them to "hatch".\n\nThe physiology and mechanism of their surviving the freezing temperatures is beyond me!\n\nI hope this has helped explain at least part of your question.
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When we have mild winters, the ticks do not get killed off and therefore begin to flourish.  Nasty little things.  \n\nI recently learned this by reading an article about ticks.  Yes, there are more ticks now.  Global warming.
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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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They group together within their nest/mound and go into something called "diapause," which is the insect equivalent of hibernation. Their bodies freeze and they just shut down and become active again once the temperatures reach a warm enough level.
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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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You actually have seasons. \n\nWinter can be very cold and more snow than usual.
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Yes, Robins do fly south for the winter.  Robins that hang around Minnesota might only fly as far south as Illinois for the winter.  Robins in Illinois might only fly as far south as Tennessee for the winter, and so on.