The word 'overwintering' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to animals or plants that survive the winter in a dormant or inactive state, or when referring to food being stored for use during the winter. Example sentence: The birds migrate south for the winter to find food sources for overwintering.
"When you're seeing wasps inside a house at this time of year, you're probably seeing what are known as paper wasps, and it's almost always the result of the emergence of overwintering queens," he said, pointing out that while some wasps do not sting, overwintering queens do.
(This also calls into question yet another hypothesis about showy autumn colours that they demonstrate a tree's health, and thus discourage harmful insects from overwintering there).
Overwintering of frogs and salamanders frequently involves their aggregation in large numbers in a moist terrestrial niche, such as a rotting log, the mud on banks or bottoms of marshes and ponds, or in springs.
The first type of syconium, produced in the spring, contains male flowers and gall flowers; each of the latter may contain one of the fig wasp eggs, deposited there in the spring by wasps that had just emerged from overwintering in another type of fig. These eggs produce wingless male and winged female wasps later in the summer.
The phytoplasma is perpetuated in overwintering weed and crop plants, in propagative parts (bulbs, corms, tubers), and in leafhoppers in mild climates.
The unexplained loss of honeybee colonies that came to be known as CCD was first reported in the fall of 2006 by a commercial beekeeper from Pennsylvania, U.S., who was overwintering his colonies in Florida.
"This new sighting is a truly historic event as it marks the first time this stunning butterfly has ever overwintered successfully in Britain," said Brereton.
In addition, millions of endangered monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) migrate annually between regions of the United States and Mexico's western Mesa Central to overwinter on about a dozen forested peaks, particularly in eastern Michoacán state.
Insects may overwinter as egg, larva, nymph, pupa, or adult; because they can stand very low temperatures, few of these forms die if the winter temperatures are within their normal range.
Because many insect species have more than one generation of progeny per year, the prothoracic glands do not cease functioning except at some stage in the life cycle of the brood that must overwinter.
Over the next 4 to 6 weeks, the larvae develop into adults and begin producing eggs that will overwinter.
