eli5: How do Bugs survive winter

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i genuinly curious how bugs such as flies and mosquitoos survive during winter and come back i. summer/spring, how can we eradicate mosquitoos permanently ? cold weather seems to be the optimal way so why it dont work ? do i have to move to siberia to never encounter one of those blood sucking vermin ? elp.

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They don’t. Most of them anyway. Their larvae survive mostly underground and come out when the weather is better.

Best way to have few musquito’s is having a two warm weeks at the end of winter – to have the new bugs to come up – to have some harsh freezing afterwards – to kill them all off. But it doesn’t only kill the “bad” bugs, also the “good” ones.

Best way to eradicate (or atleast, seriously reduce numbers) seems to be breeding genetically mutated ones which cannot reproduce and mix them with the population. I believe they do/id that somewhere already.

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