Where do all the wasps go in the winter?

Question

Where do all the wasps go in the winter?

Answer 1

h**l hopefully!

Answer 2

they go home. and they wouldn't die otherwise there wouldn't be any wasps for the next summer. they sort of hibernate, and go undergroud.

Answer 3

The queens hole up in rotten wood - generally, fallen trees

EDIT: CJ, by a really weird coincidence, your source (yourself) is remarkably similar to the Wikipedia article...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp#Social...

Strange, no?

Answer 4

if they all died how would they come back for the summer?

Answer 5

Migrate I assume

Answer 6

They live in their hives and keep warm by clumping together. On warm winter days they will come out.

Answer 7

Not all social wasps have castes that are physically different in size and structure. In many polistine paper wasps and stenogastrines, for example, the castes of females are determined behaviorally, through dominance interactions, rather than having caste predetermined. All female wasps are potentially capable of becoming a colony's queen and this process is often determined by which female successfully lays eggs first and begins construction of the nest. Evidence suggests that females compete amongst each other by eating the eggs of other rival females. The queen may, in some cases, simply be the female that can eat the largest volume of eggs while ensuring that her own eggs survive (often achieved by laying the most). This process theoretically determines the strongest and most reproductively capable female and selects her as the queen. Once the first eggs have hatched, the subordinate females stop laying eggs and instead forage for the new queen and feed the young; that is, the competition largely ends, with the losers becoming workers, though if the dominant female dies, a new hierarchy may be established with a former "worker" acting as the replacement queen. Polistine nests are considerably smaller than many other social wasp nests, typically housing only around 250 wasps, compared to the several thousand common with yellowjackets, and stenogastrines have the smallest colonies of all, rarely with more than a dozen wasps in a mature colony.

in all winter there are sleeping

Answer 8

As you can see by the variety of answers not all wasp overwinter in the same way.  In warmer areas there may be little or no interruption in their activities.  Some species react more to their prey than to the weather.  In colder areas most species stay in the nest and with many only the queen survives all winter.  Some species lay eggs in the fall and the new generation emerges in the spring.  Look up the wasp you are interested in and see how it handles cold winters.  You may find it does one thing in your area and quite another in a different area.

Answer 9

They all die. I think!

Answer 10

The queens hibernate, the rest die.