What happens to ants during the winter?
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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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it is a winter plant\n\n:> peace
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trees dont breathe as such during the winter months, they go into a sort of no growth regime. That is why they have defined growth rings. They start 'breathing' carbon dioxide again in spring when the new growth cycle starts up again
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Some ants can live a long time, while other ants have very short life spans. A species of worker ants in Africa only live for a few weeks, while one queen ant held in a German laboratory was 29 years old! Ants usually live in colonies. At the center of the colony is one or more queen ants -- these are females who lay eggs. Many smaller male ants work hard to feed and care for the queen. Not surprisingly, queens generally live longer than male worker ants. As I learned at a great site called ZoomSchool, ants usually live only 6 to 10 weeks!
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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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Kill them on a cool night or before dawn when it is coldest.  They are least active at that time and will all be in the nest.  You should be able to find an aerosol or at the home supply and hardware stores specifically for wasps.  Don't dispose of the paper hive during a hot time of the day because there is no guarantee that they will all be dead.
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How cold?  I live in Colorado and lots of plants survive through the winter.  They are dormant during the cold months though.
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It is quite true that soil temperatures where the living parts of the plants are during winter are not as cold as the surface temperature. That is the first fact. The second thing that comes into play is that plants produce chemicals that depress the freezing point of water and prevent ice crystals from forming and rupturing cell walls. The next factor is that many plants forms seeds or spores that are biologically inactive when conditions are not suitable for growth. This is sort of a suspended animation. It is also important to recall that plants even as large as trees have only a very small proportion of actual "living material." In a tree in winter, the cambium and rootas are "alive" The cambium goes inactive and reactivates when spring comes and the roots remain fairly dormant through winter until warming weather stimulates the cambium back to life and the roots then beginning sending sap up the tree. The question is complex as plants vary from one celled organisms to trees.
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The life cycle of the ant consists of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Fertilized eggs produce female ants (queens, workers, or soldiers); unfertilized eggs produce male ants. \nEgg: Ant eggs are oval shaped and tiny (they are on the order of 1 mm long, but the queen's egg is many times larger). \n\nLarva: The worm-like larvae have no eyes and no legs; they eat food regurgitated by adult ants. The larvae molt (shed their skin) many times as they increase in size. \n\nPupa: After reaching a certain size, the larva spins a silk-like cocoon around itself (against a solid object, like the wall of the chamber) and pupates. During this time the body metamorphoses (changes) into its adult form. \n\nAdult: The pupa emerges as an adult. The entire life cycle usually lasts from 6 to 10 weeks. Some queens can live over 15 years, and some workers can live for up to 7 years.
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1.  Many people and wildlife organizations feed wildlife during the winter.  This may be on the scale of birds in your yard to elk herds at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, WY.  Some people, including me, would argue large scale feeding like this is bad, but some would disagree.\n\n2.  Another way to help animals is to leave them alone.  Winter is a very stressful time of year for animals and messing with them makes things worse.  Winter is a time when food is limited and temperatures are extreme, so weak or stressed animals die easily.  Thus, chasing or otherwise messing with animals can do great harm.\n\n3.  Another way to help animals is to build habitat.  Again, this may be on the scale of backyard bird houses or large scale conservation of land so that animals have appropriate dens and hibernation sites.
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Mild winter with little precipitation in the form of\nsnow. Blustery cold days ahead in early January\nIce storm or two mid Feb. and a really big snow\nearly March.
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They dont!! Sorry to say it but that's why you see some animals dead :(.\nHoweverm they do know winter's comming up...it  kinna get cooler
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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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Depends on what ants you are talking about \n\n some ants like  sweet stuff\n\nTry leaving some bread and jam or honey around ,\n in the ant season  \n and you will see them homing in on it , in droves .\n\n Some ants are carnivorous  \n living on other insects and even caterpillars \n\nsome ants are scavengers that will eat  or take to their nest anything  they can find that is edible  .\n\nBut ants love sweet stuff above all . \n\n>^,,^<
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No they do not follow the same path. They follow a pheromone trail path set by a forager ant. The ensuing ants will reinforce that path until the food finishes. Yes they know where they are going, as they will also follow the strongest and shortest pheromone trail path.\n\nAlso, through the observation of the sudden infestation of my house with literally hundreds of ants (probably its winter). They find sugar traces in my toilet sink (I was doing some soda and mentos experiment there) :P, and a box of opened cereal at the top of my fridge.\n\nDestroying a path of ants seem to work poorly, as they still continue... they seem to operate much more actively in the day and communicate with other ants with increasing frequency when they are in the trail. Ant poison (chemical but toxic food for ants, which they will feed the queens with) seems to work a few years back and my current batch of ants seem to be taking the bait...
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The ants harvest leaves and take them to the burrow, a fungus decomposes them to make ant food, a mold parasitises the crop and a bacterium is a cure for the mold.  A menoge la quatro.
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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.