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Insectoid Cryogenic Suspension

Kat

Kat

I'm talkin' to YOU.
I saw a weird thing yesterday...

I have a koi pond out front (though the fish are indoors for the winter), and the water had frozen solid in it back in the fall, trapping a ladybug on/in the ice. That same ladybug has been there for months and months, exposed to the elements and to the Colorado winter. The past couple of weeks have been unseasonably warm, and the solid ice in the pond finally melted. Guess what? The very same ladybug was moving around (actually, it was trying to climb out of the water). It was the weirdest thing. Needless to say, I rescued it from the water, but I don't know how long it'll live as it didn't look to be in very good shape (though it was crawling around), and also its food source isn't available yet. I just thought it was pretty neat and a testiment to the hardiness of life that such a small and fragile thing could survive the way it did.

-Kat
 
Wow..
I would never even thought that a lady bug could do that..
I always thought that they lived for a short period of time....

I guess the will power to live on that little bug is pretty strong..
I mean even a human being would have died just being outside for most of the time...
 
When I was the manager of a local fast food restaurant, we had our new store built in a previously undeveloped area, and there were LOTS of crickets around the store for the first few months. Since I got tired of just killing them outright, and I had heard that insects were amazing creatures, when exposed to low temps, I got to freezing them in the walkin-freezer. I would let them get completely frozen (I mean HARD frozen!), then allow them to thaw out slowly. Inevitably, they would alway scome back to life, even if they had been frozen for an extended period of time. They could even suffer the process multiple times and be just fine!

Cool... :cool:
 
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