However, if it be granted that the moth does hibernate here, the instances are so rare and isolated that, unless such specimens are impregnated females, the chances of these reproducing their kind the following year are not great.
As a rule the caterpillars hibernate when about half grown, and feed up in April and May of the following year.
Usually the caterpillar feeds up and pupates the same year, but on the moors in Aberdeenshire and some other parts of Scotland it is said to hibernate and to complete its life cycle the following summer and autumn.
In Southern England the caterpillars hatch from the egg in August and usually hibernate when quite small.
Occasionally, however, a few individuals depart from the general habit and complete their growth the same year, hibernate in the pupal stage, and produce moths the next year, possibly earlier than hibernating caterpillars.
But when the mud hardens entirely they hibernate or rather æstivate, in a dormant condition, until the bursting of the monsoon fills the ponds once more with the welcome water.
In the winter they hibernate by burying themselves in the mud, or by getting down cracks in the ground.
Rubbish and all places in which the insects can hibernate and the fungi can propagate should be done away with.
The young are born alive, and breeding continues until late autumn when all stages are killed by the cold weather except the tiny half-grown black scales, many of which hibernate safely.
The grubs leave the fruits in the fall and enter the ground, where they hibernate and transform to adults the next May, June, or July, depending on the season.
Me, I'm going to hibernate like a bear that goes to sleep with his thumb in his mouth.
And then I'll go to sleep again and hibernate some more.
With frogs, especially, this hibernation is not a perfect one, and there is a doubt if in a mild winter some species hibernate at all.
Many other insects hibernate or lay their eggs in tree-trunks.
In the soil also and even deeper in the subsoil are many insects; some hibernate in the winter, and at other times actively gnaw the roots of plants or devour dead leaves and twigs (see Chapter xxiii.
He found that the bed-bug does not hibernate where the conditions are such as to allow it to breed and that breeding is continuous unless interrupted by the lack of food or, during the winter, by low temperature.
The majority of mosquitoes in temperate climates hibernate in the egg stage, hatching in the spring or even mild winter days in water from melting snow.
The adults of Culex pipiens hibernate throughout the winter in cellars, buildings, hollow trees, or similar dark shelters.
The cluster-fly, Pollenia rudis, undoubtedly does hibernate in attics and similar situations and is often mistaken for the house-fly.
As far as the Chiroptera are concerned, some species of bats hibernate and others migrate to a warmer climate to spend the winter.
Some species store up hoards of food against lean seasons; others eat like gluttons when food is abundant and hibernate through times of want; still others are equipped to spend the whole year in a busy search for something to eat.
Bears hibernate or, more properly, retire for several months of the winter.
They usually hibernate with the mother, since they remain with her for well over a year.
Other insects hibernate in the adult or imago form, either as beetles, butterflies or certain species of bees.
The great majority, however, hibernate after having passed one or more moults.
It is not believed that any of them hibernate in any stage of their existence.
Many butterflies remain in the chrysalis stage only for a few weeks; others hibernate in this state, and in temperate climates a great many butterflies pass the winter as chrysalids.
Many caterpillars which hibernate do so immediately after emerging from the egg and before having made the first moult.
The insects hibernate in the imago form, and are among the first butterflies to take wing in the springtime.
The caterpillars are hatched in the fall, and hibernate without feeding until the following spring.
In making the experiment it probably would be well to select the larvæ of species which are known to hibernate during the winter and to be capable of withstanding a great degree of cold.
Their caterpillars oftenhibernate in a temperature of from forty to fifty, and even seventy, degrees below zero, Fahrenheit.
The insects hibernate in the butterfly form in hollow trees and other hiding-places.
Since many monogoneutic species now hibernate in the caterpillar stage (e.
Should a further lengthening of the summer occur, the butterflies might emerge soon enough to lay eggs in the autumn, and by a still greater lengthening the eggs also might hatch, the larvæ grow up and hibernate as pupæ.
Whether this is actually the case must be learnt from further researches; at present we only know that many species hibernate in the egg stage, others in the larval state, others as pupæ, and yet others in the perfect state.
The facts agree with this conclusion, inasmuch as most butterflies which exhibit seasonal dimorphism hibernate in the pupa stage.
We know also that many species hibernate in several stages at the same time, but we do not know whether each stage of every species has an equal power of accommodation to cold.
Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that seasonal dimorphism occurs also in some species which do not hibernate as pupæ but as caterpillars; as, for instance, in the strongly dimorphic Plebeius Amyntas.
The pupæ were then allowed to hibernate in an unheated room, and in April and May gave nothing but Levana.
The latter would thenhibernate in the pupal state, and would sooner or later also assume the winter form through the action of the cold of winter.
Softshells possibly hibernate in shallow water or in soft mud flats.
April into September, depending on the weather; they hibernate under a shallow covering of mud in deep water.
The breeding season begins shortly after the jumping mice emerge from hibernation in the spring, and reproduction continues until a few weeks before they hibernate in the autumn.
This insect may be occasionally noticed abroad on mild evenings in the middle of winter; the females probably hibernate and deposit their eggs early in the spring.
A few of the second brood emerge in the autumn andhibernate as moths, but the majority pass the winter in the pupa state.
The time of year when this occurred was late autumn, and it therefore seems probable that the larvae hibernate and undergo their transformation early the following spring.
The moth usually emerges in about a month's time, but the autumnal larvae either hibernate or remain in the pupa state throughout the winter.
These larvae hibernate during the winter months, often secreting themselves in the burrows which have been made in the stems of the mahoe by various species of wood-boring insects.
They have gone down in search of "hard-pan," there tohibernate until next April.
The larvae attain their full size, a half inch in length, by the middle of August, and then hibernate until the following June.
Some of the adults of the last brood hibernatein any convenient rubbish about the vineyard.
And snow sometimes is even helpful to food storers and also to the bears and ground-hogs who hibernate, and even to a number of small folk who neither hibernate nor lay up supplies.
Many chipmunks and some species of squirrels hibernate for indefinite periods.
Though very little is known concerning the winter habits of these alpine animals, it is probable that they do not hibernate but during the winter live on their stored hay and what additional food is to be found under the snow.
In winter they hibernatein holes in a bank of their pond.
Most land tortoises hibernate in the ground during the cold half of the year, or they aestivate during the hot and dry seasons when in the tropics, but this is not an invariable rule.
Twice I have known bears to hibernate in enormous nests that were made of the long fibres of cedar bark.
But a grizzly may hibernate anywhere in his territory where he can find or make a den to his liking.
From the time the mother and cubs emerge from the winter den in the spring until they enter a den to hibernate the next winter, they are on the move much of the time.
In Alaska and the Northwest many bears hibernate in the heights above the timber-line.
However, in Mexico grizzlies sometimes hibernate even though the climate be mild and food plentiful.
Ordinarily these animals are active throughout the entire year, but towards the northern edge of their range they frequently hibernate for considerable periods (thirty-one days from personal observations).
Although the latter may be confined to cement floors and have no access to any matter whatever, other than the food regularly supplied, they frequently hibernate in a quite orderly manner.
In the tropics, the bear does not have to hibernate to keep the fat that he has gained in the time of plenty upon his ribs.
So his period of sleeping is very short and in many cases he does not hibernate at all; while, on the other hand, the bear of the cold northland sleeps nearly half of the year.
This winter Black Bruin did not hibernate as he usually did, but spent the time in a series of short naps.
The sire and dam do not hibernate together and they are seen together only during a few weeks of their honeymoon.
In the winter months it is believed to hibernate in hollow trees.
Woodlice hibernate under any convenient shelter; in the spring, eggs are produced and carried by the female on the under side of the body until the young woodlice hatch.
Throughout winter the larvae hibernatesingly or in colonies under loose bark, in leaf axils, or any suitable crevice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hibernate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: coast; delay; drift; hibernate; hide; idle; lurk; rest; retire; smolder; stagnate; underlie; vegetate
