Do insects also get cold?
Forum rules
The global forum rules are found here.
NOTE: posts in this section are not counted towards your total.
The global forum rules are found here.
NOTE: posts in this section are not counted towards your total.
-
- Registered User
- Posts: 410
- Joined: 03 Jan 2007, 02:00
- Location: Metal Forest Tree Tops
- Contact:
Do insects also get cold?
I was wondering with the cold we have.
Standing outside having a smoke today a saw an ant do his thing. I freezing. Do they know or feel the cold?
What do you think?
I would say some do coz you dont see all the insects in the winter
Standing outside having a smoke today a saw an ant do his thing. I freezing. Do they know or feel the cold?
What do you think?
I would say some do coz you dont see all the insects in the winter
Thanks to Stuart
Re: Do insects also get cold?
Congratulations sir! You have just won the coveted PCF Most Random Though of the Year 2009 award. Your title will be changed once the full outcome of the 2009 Forum Awards is known. Which might require us to wait until some of last year's champions are unbanned.
In answer to your question, I have n clue. I've never seen an ant with a jersey, but that might just mean they're all stupid.
In answer to your question, I have n clue. I've never seen an ant with a jersey, but that might just mean they're all stupid.
-
- Registered User
- Posts: 410
- Joined: 03 Jan 2007, 02:00
- Location: Metal Forest Tree Tops
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
Thank you
Hi Stuart.
Not just ants I had a moth in my room last week flying around looking for the light, maybe they get cold flying around the heat?
hehehheh
Yea the stuff you think off when you not thinking about work
Hi Stuart.
Not just ants I had a moth in my room last week flying around looking for the light, maybe they get cold flying around the heat?
hehehheh
Yea the stuff you think off when you not thinking about work
Thanks to Stuart
Re: Do insects also get cold?
We could always just ask him, but since he's never actually posted here I wouldn't hold my breath about getting a reply.
I think moths are just attraceted to the light, not the heat. I have a heater in front of me and not a single six-legged friend in sight.
I think moths are just attraceted to the light, not the heat. I have a heater in front of me and not a single six-legged friend in sight.
- Prime
- Registered User
- Posts: 27729
- Joined: 01 Mar 2004, 02:00
- Location: Getting into trouble
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
OMG LUL WUT
Maybe you need more oxygen in your lungs
Maybe you need more oxygen in your lungs
Re: Do insects also get cold?
Actually, i was wondering the same.... my cats (and some of the dogs) have been heating up my bed... but i have had all kinds of noenoes in the room since the big freeze, and to tell you the truth, the spiders like the blankets as well..... and the inside of my woolly slippers....
I suppose some like moist dark places (which are mostly warm....)
Where are the scientists when you need them? (no, don't google it... lets get people's opinions... )
I suppose some like moist dark places (which are mostly warm....)
Where are the scientists when you need them? (no, don't google it... lets get people's opinions... )
"Integrity" and "integer" both contain a Latin root meaning "whole; complete." The root sense, then, is that people may be said to be acting with integrity when their beliefs, words, and actions have a sense of unity or wholeness.
-
- Registered User
- Posts: 1321
- Joined: 04 Nov 2007, 02:00
- Location: /home/jhb/fourways
Re: Do insects also get cold?
Dogs and cats I can understand because they are mammals, hence warm blooded which means they need to stay warm or they freeze. Bugs I don't think feel the cold as they can be frozen and once they defrost they carry on with life as though nothing has happened
- rustypup
- Registered User
- Posts: 8872
- Joined: 13 Dec 2004, 02:00
- Location: nullus pixius demonica
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
yes... but not the same way we do...
our reaction is far more granular than an insect's for a number of reasons, but mostly because we're warm-blooded and our skin is saturated with nerve endings who's only function in life is to gripe about all the minutiae of their daily suffering - ie, our epidermis responds almost instantly to temperature fluctuations... only once our core temp drops will we begin to experience cold the way bugs do - we start to slow down, get sleepy and, eventually, die when our blood and organs start crystallising.... we're able to stave this off for a while longer through exercise - an option not open to bugs...
bugs, being cold blooded, don't respond as quickly as we do to gradual changes in temperature, (they do react to abrupt changes), and, where we experience an analogy of 'pain' for cold, their carapace isn't peppered with nerve endings - they also have little to no control over their internal temps - this is why gradual freezing works with bugs...
our reaction is far more granular than an insect's for a number of reasons, but mostly because we're warm-blooded and our skin is saturated with nerve endings who's only function in life is to gripe about all the minutiae of their daily suffering - ie, our epidermis responds almost instantly to temperature fluctuations... only once our core temp drops will we begin to experience cold the way bugs do - we start to slow down, get sleepy and, eventually, die when our blood and organs start crystallising.... we're able to stave this off for a while longer through exercise - an option not open to bugs...
bugs, being cold blooded, don't respond as quickly as we do to gradual changes in temperature, (they do react to abrupt changes), and, where we experience an analogy of 'pain' for cold, their carapace isn't peppered with nerve endings - they also have little to no control over their internal temps - this is why gradual freezing works with bugs...
Last edited by rustypup on 10 Jun 2009, 08:22, edited 1 time in total.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so - Bertrand Russel
Re: Do insects also get cold?
have you ever tried this? i've heard it my whole life, but have never actually experimented myself. i've also never tried dropping a frog in water and slowly boiling it. the person who discovered these things probably needed some psychological help at some point.Vampyre_2099 wrote:Dogs and cats I can understand because they are mammals, hence warm blooded which means they need to stay warm or they freeze. Bugs I don't think feel the cold as they can be frozen and once they defrost they carry on with life as though nothing has happened
- rustypup
- Registered User
- Posts: 8872
- Joined: 13 Dec 2004, 02:00
- Location: nullus pixius demonica
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
first off, bugs feel, and respond to, rapid changes in temperature, so you have to do it slowly...Stuart wrote: i've heard it my whole life, but have never actually experimented myself.
not all bugs can be frozen.... the issue is the same one we suffer from... when tissue or blood freezes, it is irreparably damaged... if the bug is naturally endowed with some chemical that can buffer the internal system against crystalisation, it's on to a winner... if not, it's a bugsicle...
a sweet, delicious, bugsicle... mmmmm....
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so - Bertrand Russel
- hamin_aus
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 18363
- Joined: 28 Aug 2003, 02:00
- Processor: Intel i7 3770K
- Motherboard: GA-Z77X-UP4 TH
- Graphics card: Galax GTX1080
- Memory: 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws
- Location: Where beer does flow and men chunder
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
you like chicken?
Re: Do insects also get cold?
brings to mind a story from yesterday, but it would be too off topic to repeat here.rustypup wrote:a sweet, delicious, bugsicle... mmmmm....
Re: Do insects also get cold?
True, they were probably hallucinating.Stuart wrote: i've also never tried dropping a frog in water and slowly boiling it. the person who discovered these things probably needed some psychological help at some point.
A frog will not, in fact, stay in a pot of water as it slowly starts to boil. It will jump out.
Ceterum autem censeo Samsung Mobile esse delendam.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
-
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 10000
- Joined: 05 Feb 2004, 02:00
- Processor: Intel i5-4690K @ 4.5GHZ
- Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Formula
- Graphics card: ASUS GTX970 Strix
- Memory: 4 x 4GB Corsair Dominators
- Location: Messing with your Mind
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
Thats what lids are for... DuhD3PART3D wrote:True, they were probably hallucinating.Stuart wrote: i've also never tried dropping a frog in water and slowly boiling it. the person who discovered these things probably needed some psychological help at some point.
A frog will not, in fact, stay in a pot of water as it slowly starts to boil. It will jump out.
Art Williams wrote:I'm not telling you it is going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
Re: Do insects also get cold?
Ahahaha!
Ceterum autem censeo Samsung Mobile esse delendam.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
Re: Do insects also get cold?
Monty wrote:Thats what lids are for... DuhD3PART3D wrote:True, they were probably hallucinating.Stuart wrote: i've also never tried dropping a frog in water and slowly boiling it. the person who discovered these things probably needed some psychological help at some point.
A frog will not, in fact, stay in a pot of water as it slowly starts to boil. It will jump out.
- rustypup
- Registered User
- Posts: 8872
- Joined: 13 Dec 2004, 02:00
- Location: nullus pixius demonica
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so - Bertrand Russel
Re: Do insects also get cold?
rustypup,
I wonder how long they can stay frozen for.
I wonder how long they can stay frozen for.
Ceterum autem censeo Samsung Mobile esse delendam.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
- Tribble
- Registered User
- Posts: 88465
- Joined: 08 Feb 2007, 02:00
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K CPU@3.50GHz
- Motherboard: ACPI x64-based PC
- Graphics card: GeForce GTX 780 Ti
- Memory: 16GB
- Location: Not here
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
rustypup, between you and mousey - I am feeling decidedly off colour
Re: Do insects also get cold?
We work well in tandomTribble wrote:rustypup, between you and mousey - I am feeling decidedly off colour
- Tribble
- Registered User
- Posts: 88465
- Joined: 08 Feb 2007, 02:00
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K CPU@3.50GHz
- Motherboard: ACPI x64-based PC
- Graphics card: GeForce GTX 780 Ti
- Memory: 16GB
- Location: Not here
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
Sadly it is effective.
@jee thanks for the heads up. Gonna check my slippers before I put them on in future.
@jee thanks for the heads up. Gonna check my slippers before I put them on in future.
Re: Do insects also get cold?
I found a Parktown Prawn lurking in one of my shoes a while back. Saw the movement JUST before I put the shoe on. It might have been unpleasant otherwise.Tribble wrote:@jee thanks for the heads up. Gonna check my slippers before I put them on in future.
- Tribble
- Registered User
- Posts: 88465
- Joined: 08 Feb 2007, 02:00
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K CPU@3.50GHz
- Motherboard: ACPI x64-based PC
- Graphics card: GeForce GTX 780 Ti
- Memory: 16GB
- Location: Not here
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
you really are on a "creep the cat out" roll today That is one reason I would not live anywhere near Jhb, Sandton or Randburg / 4ways. We do not have Parktown prawns here. I wonder if we can arrange to have all of them flash frozen?
Re: Do insects also get cold?
My friend stayed in a house in Brackenhurst that was infested by the things ... that is where I had my experience. Other than that, I think I've only ever seen one--already dead--in Alberton.
- Tribble
- Registered User
- Posts: 88465
- Joined: 08 Feb 2007, 02:00
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K CPU@3.50GHz
- Motherboard: ACPI x64-based PC
- Graphics card: GeForce GTX 780 Ti
- Memory: 16GB
- Location: Not here
- Contact:
Re: Do insects also get cold?
I saw a dead one when I lived in Hillbrow. I was so terrified that I couldn't even walk past it. I hope I never see another one again.