Does the change in weather from hot to cold affect the wildlife that are about earlier due to the hot weather?

When warm/hot weather occurs earlier than usual this can trigger some animals to come out of hibernation earlier than normal and also trigger plants to begin to flowering early, etc.


This can and does cause major problems for wildlife.





Animals, plants and insects habitually time their natural breeding cycles, periods of hibernation, migration, flowering, etc according to specific weather seasons at specific times of the year when they expect their natural food sources (or in the case of plants, pollinators %26amp; seed dispersers) to be available. This is something that has been learnt by wildlife over thousands and thousands of years. Previously, wildlife had time to adapt to any changes in climate that occurred in the past because these changes were generally much slower and took place over a much longer period of time. The problems being encountered by wildlife nowadays is that changes in climate are happening too quickly and unpredictably. Birds may migrate early and find no food available at their destination; animals may come of hibernation during an early warm spell and use up vital energy reserves only to find that their expected food is not available; plants may start to flower early, again using up vital stores of energy which are not then available later when spring or summer really does arrive.





In some places normal expected 'spring' is hardly happening at all, whilst elsewhere there might a second 'spring' when in fact autumn was expected. This already occurs in the Mediterranean - such weather has now also been recorded in parts of the UK for example. Elsewhere, winter occasionally seems to leap directly into summer, or is unusually cold or mild. It is the extreme and unpredicatable nature of the 'seasons' or weather that we are experiencing nowadays that appears to be causing so many problems.Does the change in weather from hot to cold affect the wildlife that are about earlier due to the hot weather?
Do you mean because April was really hot and now it's back to normal? If so, I would early expect insects have had a bit of a hard time but I suspect the plants etc are able to cope. By summertime we will know for certain...Does the change in weather from hot to cold affect the wildlife that are about earlier due to the hot weather?
Yes it really does ,go to any website regarding the enviroment and wildlife and weep
Of course, as the weather cool bears prepare to hibernate for the winter. Birds leave northern climes for the south returning when winter is over. Some animals coats become thicker to prepare them for the cold. Just to name a few.
Yes, almost any change in the environment will effect the way animals behave.





However, it’s important to point out that animal behaviours such as hibernation and migration are actually desperate attempts to survive harsh winters. Given half a chance, animals would rather not have to do it.





So when they hear that, due to global warming, animals are not hibernating (for example), some people start saying something along the lines of “See! Animals can’t hibernate any more, because of global warming. Isn’t it terrible?!” Whereas, if you could talk to the animals themselves, they’d be saying “Isn’t global warming great?! I don’t have to hibernate through the winter any more!”





Now, to answer your question more specifically…





I *think* you’re asking “Does the onset of winter have any effect on animals that hibernate and, due to global warming, emerged from hibernation earlier in the year than normal?”





If that’s your question, then the answer would have to be that these animals are better off. During the period that these animals are active, they have certain things that they need to do, the most important of which are; eating to regain the fat reserves they lost while hibernating through the winter, mating and raising their young, and then fattening themselves and their young ready for the next hibernation. The more time that they have to do this (and the shorter the period of hibernation that they need to recover from/prepare for) the better.





Thus, the answer to your question is; yes, it makes their lives *much* easier.
In short: yes.