The tropical species, if transferred to a colder climate, should have arrangements made for enabling them to hybernate during the winter: they will die in a very short time if exposed to a temperature below the freezing point.
They are said to hybernate during the season there.
They were somnolent by day, active by night, and did nothybernate in Nepal.
Among these is the cheese-mite (Acarus Siro): its four fore feet being terminated by a vesicle with a long neck, to which it can give every kind of inflexion.
Vanessa Urticae, Io, and a few other lepidopterous species, with a small proportion of the other orders, occasionally survive the winter; but the bulk of these are rarely found to hybernate as perfect insects.
By far the greater proportion of insects pass the winter only in one or other of the several states of egg, pupa, larva, or imago, but are never found to hybernate in more than one.
A very considerable number of insects hybernate in the perfect state, chiefly of the orders Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera, and especially of the first.
I refer to a habit of some ophidians, in temperate and cold countries, of returning annually to hybernate in the saine den.
Frogs hybernate under the mud of ponds, where they lie close together, in a stratum, till the spring awakens them to a renewal of their lives and loves.
In the north of Europe an opinion has long prevailed that the Swallows not only hybernate in a state of torpidity, but, like the frogs and toads, retire to the bottoms of pools to spend that dreary season.
The moths are supposed to lay their eggs in July, when they soon hatch and feed during the season; they attain considerable size and hybernate in the soil.
Our hardy fruit trees are woody perennials that hybernate during the winter.
As I say, let me hybernate until the birds of passage come and the young leaves are green in the spring.
Those that hybernate on or under the ground are liable to fall a prey to moles and beetles.
Like the preceding species they hybernate during the winter, and commence feeding again in the spring.
The larvae that hybernate throughout the winter are rather more troublesome, especially those which are inclined to take a ramble on certain mild days in search of food when none is at hand.
Many of the earlier species appear on the wing in spring and early summer; but the late feeders emerge in the autumn, and hybernate through the winter, often taking to the wing on the mild days of our coldest months.
The caterpillars that emerge from these are fully grown in July or early August, and go through their changes during the latter month; but the later ones hybernate during the winter, and are not full fed till the following May.
The later specimens, which do not emerge till September or October, spend only a short time on the wing, and then hybernate till the spring, giving rise to the first brood of the following season.
The butterflies of the summer brood emerge shortly after, but the chrysalides of the next brood hybernate till the following spring.
Many of these die before the approach of winter; but, as we have already observed, some hybernate and deposit their eggs in the following spring.
When the leaves begin to fall in the autumn, they construct a more substantial web to protect themselves from the dangers of the winter, and in this they hybernate till the buds burst in the following spring.
Those of the first brood only have been taken in this country, while the others on the Continent change to the chrysalis in the autumn, and hybernate in this state throughout the winter.
They hybernate during the winter, and change to the chrysalis state in the following May or June.
They hybernate at the roots of the grasses till the beginning of the following May, and change to the chrysalis state about the middle of June, suspending themselves to grass blades by means of their anal hooks.
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