system
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human
In winter bugs like spiders, flies and mosquitoes, seemingly die off. How is it that after the winter they're able to come back in such numbers? A layman would think the winter would cause an extinction of some insects.
gpt
Insects survive the winter months in a variety of different ways. Some migrate, like birds and other animals, to warmer climates from which they will return at the end of winter. Others can enter a sort of hibernation. A lot of insects will "overwinter" in some sort of non-adult stage of development, either as an egg, pupae, larvae, etc. This requires the young insects to be deposited somewhere warm and with relative shelter, deep underground or in the foundation of a building. Their genetics allow them to enforce this infantile stage of development until weather conditions permit.