At the end of the summer they search for hibernation sites where they spend winter and spring.
In contrast, the extent of chronic pathology, the removal of host blood during hibernation, is likely to be determined primarily by immune competence.
At the protein level, myoglobin appears to increase in skeletal muscle as animals prepare for and undergo hibernation.
Altogether 189 adults hatched and 36 larvae remained in hibernation.
The beetles had recently emerged from winter hibernation and started to mate.
It would be perhaps more justifiable to look for an intoxication as a cause of this phenomenon than as a cause of hibernation.
In the early spring the arrival of migratory birds coincides with the ending of hibernation of the non-aedinine mosquitoes which fly around seeking blood.
Like seeds in hibernation, they await a more receptive climate, in the meantime gathering strength and power.
