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Do mosquitos hibernate?

I never see them around in the winter. Do they hibernate or hold stores of food?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Most mosquitoes spend the winter months as eggs, lying dormant in wait of spring snow-melt and rain to activate them.

    But there are some species that do indeed hibernate over the winter. Some will hide in the leaf litter on the forest floor, protected from the worst cold by the insulating snow until they thaw in spring.

    Others will hide in deep burrows or caves, hibernating until spring. Several species that do this have found that our modern storm sewer systems are ideal places to spend the winter. The mosquitoes that are the primary carriers of West Nile virus (the Culex genus) are among the species that do this. In some areas, the walls of storm sewer outlets can be covered with hibernating female mosquitoes.

    Up in my neck of the woods (western Canada), it's the large, slow-flying Culiseta mosquitoes that hibernate for the winter. This means that these mosquitoes are usually the first ones you see in early spring - but they're sluggish, slow and easy to smush. Later in the summer, we get the fast, sneaky little zoomers like Aedes vexans that bite our ankles and make picnics miserable.

    Source(s): I'm a mosquito control biologist.
  • 4 years ago

    Do Mosquitoes Hibernate

  • 1 decade ago

    No, they do not hybernate. They lay eggs and die, so during the winter the eggs are sitting dormant until later when the weather warms up, in the areas that get cold enough. IN area where the weather stays at a temperature warm enough for the mosquitoes to live, they are always around. However, they only have about a two day life span. Hows that for for a life, eat and have sex, then die.

  • 1 decade ago

    there are no musquitos in winter because they all die when it gets to cold. Before this time they lay millions of eggs in ponds etc. these eggs survive winter, and hatch in spring to start a new cycle of bloodsucking.

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  • 1 decade ago

    mosquitoes donot hibbernate they are found in all tempratures all around the world.

    Source(s): classification of animals, class insecta
  • 1 decade ago

    No, they die off in the cold.

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