eli5: How do Bugs survive winter

Question

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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Answer 1

Many individual adults don’t. Some species hibernate underground and within trees and some of them survive because they’re in well protected eggs or coccoons. Some travel south for the winter where it doesn’t get cold enough to freeze