What happens to mosquitos in the winter months?

Question

They are everywhere when it's hot but disappear when the weather gets cold.

Answer 1

I don't know, just be glad that they're gone!

Answer 2

Different species of mosquito have different strategies for survival in the winter.  There are many species which simply cannot survive cold winter weather, and these species are restricted to the tropics - at least until global climate change expands their range.

There are a few species in which adult mosquitoes will hibernate - often underneath the leaf litter, buried under the snow, or deep inside rodent burrows below the frost line where it never quite drops below freezing.  Modern cities provide a lot of this habitat in their sewer systems, and there are some species that have become considerably more abundant to take advantage of it.  There's some evidence that one group in Paris may have even become a new species specialized in living in storm sewers.

Most northern mosquitoes, however, survive the winter by laying cold resistant eggs.  These eggs sit underneath the snow layer and hatch in the spring when the snow melts and forms a pool ideal for the developing larvae.  The adults we are so familiar with over the summer lay more eggs in moist areas likely to form snow melt pools the next spring.  In some species, these eggs can lay dormant in the grass for 5 or 10 years until they are activated by a wet spring.

Answer 3

They Die

Answer 4

mosquetos lae aegs all the time.  Leftover aegs stae dormant in the winter & hatch wen it get warm.

& theer R swarms av skeeters in the summer in the Artik..

ask NE raendeer.

Answer 5

They eventually hibernate like bears do and there babys r in there cacoons sleeping they mostly hatch when its hot..hope this help!!CHOW

Answer 6

idk anything about that but...i would guess either migration or they die. linda is so dead WRONG. mosquitos dont hibernate, only mammals do. and mosquitos dont build cacoons. and mosquitos must lay their eggs in water(clean).