How do mosquitoes live thru the long, cold winter?
• A: Some mosquito species go thru the winter as adults, some as eggs, and some as larva. Adults enter into a kind of hibernation called diapause. Typically they come out of diapause once toward the end of winter for a bloodmeal to sustain them until spring. Eggs remain inactive, not hatching until the warmer spring and summer months. Larva enter into a slow growth, almost no growth, cycle and mature in the spring.
