Overwintering

While adults can't survive subzero temperatures, hatchling use supercooling to prevent their bodies from freezing while overwintering in their nests.

Cut back potted plants to 6 inches before overwintering in a sunny window indoors.

The service is tracking overwintering fires, she said, and making sure people are aware of when and where they are allowed to set a fire.

To do this, Maine opened the country’s only spruce budworm lab, where limbs from hundreds of areas across Maine are taken each winter and inspected for signs of overwintering budworms: cocoons.

I suspect there were probably some bad overwintering days last winter for our local predators.

After overwintering, they resume feeding in the spring and eventually pupate and emerge as adults to start the cycle over.

Mulching is the best insurance for overwintering mums.

Overwintering blazes, if they emerge from warm and dry conditions, would only be contained to the original perimeter of the smouldering area.

Sakowski loved the color, asked for a cutting, and has admired its flowers ever since, overwintering the geranium in his greenhouse.

By regularly changing crops and keeping the soil occupied by cover crops instead of lying fallow, pest cycles can be broken or limited, especially cycles that benefit from overwintering in residue.

In the autumn (or in spring, in the case of overwintering onions), the foliage dies down and the outer layers of the bulb become dry and brittle.

It is believed that the virus somehow survives in overwintering midges or animals.

Only 48 bird species regularly nest along the river, while others use the river as a migration corridor or as overwintering habitat.

Others may remain active for a longer period (from one to several weeks), or go through diapause and overwintering as monarch butterflies do, or waiting out environmental stress.

The Bay also has overwintering waterfowl in its wildlife refuges.