Do they hybernate or actually leave the state?
2007-02-11 03:34:46 · 11 answers · asked by D'Graham 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Keep in mind that the smaller the bug is, the easier it is for them to avoid freezing. This is because smaller insects have less water in them.
Different bugs have different solutions to overcome the cold of winter. Ladybugs will gather together inside during the winter months and vibrate their bodies to stay warm. They know where other ladybugs are because of a pheromone (a chemical that bugs can "smell") that is released by other ladybugs when they vibrate. Many bees and ants will huddle together in the same fashion to stay warm.
Beetles usually go through a growth and death cycle as an entire population, and stay dormant in pupae (like a butterfly's coccoon) underground during the winter months. This is the most common form of "overwintering" in the Class Insecta.
Some moths produce antifreeze in their "blood" to combat the cold, making it unable for them to freeze.
Some insects, like grasshoppers and butterflies, will migrate long distances to follow food supply or to mate.
Hope this isnt too much info.
2007-02-11 07:12:25 · answer #1 · answered by Murphy N 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I too live in Illinois and some bugs die and some hibernate. For example those Chinese Beatles that look like lady bugs but are kind of burnt orange. Last spring when I opened my storage shed for the first time of the year I saw what I was perplexed to see. A Large Soft ball size bunch of these bugs huddled in the corner of my shed. Much like the Penguins of Antartica they were huddling for heat. Bee's can go underground and they do. Or hollows of trees. Flies I am not so sure about. The colder the winters get the less flies we have and mosquito's.
2007-02-11 03:43:16 · answer #2 · answered by Kill_Me_Now! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many insects (bugs included) do go into a period of rest called diapause during which time their blood has a higher concentration of glycerol in it to prevent freezing. Some insects actually migrate to warmer climates like the butterflies and a new generation comes back in the spring. Other insects overwinter in either the egg stage which is more resistant to freezing or in a pupal stage often in protected places. Many of the beetles like June beetles have larval stages that live under ground and emerge in the summer as an adult to feed, mate, lay eggs and then die. So there are several mechanisms by which they live to bother us in the summer time. Surely some of the insects will die if the winter is long and severe. One of the problems of a mild winter is that there is a diminished 'winter kill' and we will see higher populations of 'bugs' in the spring and summer.
2007-02-11 03:43:31 · answer #3 · answered by docrider28 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bugs die after laying the eggs for the next warm season. Bees move around, but usually not far enough to avoid taking the "big dirt nap". The only exception I know is the Monarch butterfly, which migrates hundreds of miles every year, returning to mate at the same place, sometimes back to the same tree or nesting area.
2007-02-11 03:39:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of the worker bees (sterile females) die off. The queen and others do hibernate. Other insects and invertebrates either hibernate or die, and have lay-ed eggs that will hatch in the coming spring.
2007-02-11 03:42:51 · answer #5 · answered by Falcon Man 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
have not you study the "Ants and the Cricket" tale??? properly enable me to retell... once there lived a cricket who loved to sing.. he sang all summer time lengthy, no longer bothering to do any artwork. he watched the ants worked their *** off carrying nutrition to their properties and he laughed at them. Then the iciness got here and unexpectedly it change into too chilly to seek for nutrition so the cricket had to pass to the ants and ask for nutrition. The ants reported, "properly you may want to were operating quite of making a track!".
2016-10-17 06:31:45 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They either hibernate, keep warm by buzzing, they go deep underground to where it doesn't freeze, or they lay eggs that are freeze resistant and start over again in the spring.
2007-02-11 03:37:55 · answer #7 · answered by whatotherway 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They pass away from the cold.
The cold puts them into a hypothermic state,slows down their heart to an ultimate death. Painless.
2007-02-11 03:39:08 · answer #8 · answered by Ms.PS 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They hibernate.
2007-02-11 03:37:16 · answer #9 · answered by amazingly intelligent 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they hibernate.
2007-02-11 03:45:16 · answer #10 · answered by irishman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋