Eli5: Where do insects go when temperatures drop below -25C in the winter and isn’t the soil frozen for them to go under?

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Eli5: Where do insects go when temperatures drop below -25C in the winter and isn’t the soil frozen for them to go under?

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Some good answers here another factor is that snow is very insulating, and temperatures at the snow ground interface tend to be much warmer than air temperatures. So insects and other animals that burrow under the snow are able to remain warm.