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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Most insects live less than a year so they just die when it starts getting cold or earlier. The ones that live longer tend to spend a good chunk of their life underground waiting for it to get warm.