

They will survive: Insects can fight the cold

10:23 PM, Jan. 28, 2014
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Be it burrowing underground, seeking refuge in a house or relying on eggs to survive, insects have evolved strategies to keep them alive during cold Ohio-like winters - most of them, anyway.

"The extreme cold will have an effect on (insect) population," said Jim Fredericks, chief entomologist with the National Pest Management Association. "Will that effect be noticeable? That is just really hard to say because they do have these strategies for surviving cold weather."

Adult grasshoppers and crickets, for example, hardly ever survive the winter, Fredericks said. Their eggs, however, ...

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