As I sit at my laptop, typing this week’s “Gardening Corner,” I feel grateful for my cozy sweatshirt, yoga pants, and warm, fuzzy socks. The view from my window is bleak and barren. Sunny areas of the field where the snow and ice have melted are carpeted with brown leaves interspersed with white patches where snow has settled around the tree trunks. Jim’s raised vegetable beds and the shady half of the field are still covered with snow and ice. In January, I wrote a column about the ways mammals survive the long, cold winter months by migrating, entering a state of dormancy, or adaptation. Today I can’t help thinking about the insects hidden away in frozen limbo underground and other places. Do they survive winter weather by similar methods? The answer is yes; insects have developed various ways to survive freezing weather, despite the fact that they are cold-blooded and can’t produce their own body heat. Monarchs and some other butterflies migrate south to escape the cold temperatures...