In the hot season, you can see a lot of mosquitoes and flies everywhere, but with the onset of cold weather they disappear. Where do these insects hibernate, and how do they cope with the winter season?
Where and how do mosquitoes winter?
It is known that female mosquitoes can live on average from 114 to 119 days, taking into account the fact that the conditions for their existence will be favorable, namely: the air temperature should be kept within 10-15 ° C. The higher the air temperature, the shorter the life of the mosquito. Male mosquitoes, regardless of external factors, live only about 19 days. It should be noted that female mosquitoes can live exactly as long as the warm season lasts.
But there are also some types of mosquitoes that hibernate. Mosquitoes are in the water in winter, and it is there that their life originates. In winter, mosquitoes live in other forms, in eggs, larvae, and pupae. The female lays eggs precisely in reservoirs with stagnant water, where they develop further. From the moment of birth until the mosquito becomes an adult capable of flying, it takes only nine to fourteen days. Adults spend their entire life, namely summer and autumn, on land. Further, all male mosquitoes die, and female mosquitoes (and even then not all) go to reservoirs to wait out the winter, and in the spring to lay eggs for the birth of a new life.
Where and how do flies winter?
Where do mosquitoes hibernate, but where do flies wait out the cold season? Flies, unlike mosquitoes, which have outlived their days in the summer, do hibernate, or to be more precise, this process is called suspended animation. It is known that the lifespan of an adult fly is about a month, but many insects of this subspecies are able to live much longer. For example, a fly that hibernates can survive for six months or more. With the onset of the first cold weather, flies are clogged in various cracks, window frames and other secret places, where an even cool temperature is kept throughout the winter period. In such rooms, they hibernate and hibernate.
Not only adult flies are able to winter, but also the larvae that they lay the day before. When the first rays of the sun penetrate the rooms where the flies sleep, the insects come to life, and the larvae and pupae continue their development. Everyone knows the expression: sleepy walks like a fly. Indeed, when a fly wakes up after a long hibernation, it first walks, exactly as sleepy, staggering from one side to the other. After a while, the insects assimilate and begin to live a new spring-summer life.
