Estivating

During our hot dry summers, we see them in huge clusters on boulders, tree branches and fenceposts as well as in tall grasses, piled up atop each other, estivating together. ❋ AYDIN (2008)

I'd expect normal life spans for pulmonates to be rather short, though species in extreme environments might live longer due to estivating much of the year (like the over 200 year old mussels in Scandanavia). 60 years is long, though representatives of unrelated phyla are thought to last longer (tardigrades, rotifers, etc.) ❋ AYDIN (2007)

I'd also like to know more about the metabolic rates of active, resting and estivating land snails. ❋ AYDIN (2007)

At present Flinx knew she was estivating to conserve energy, something Alaspinian minidrags could do at will. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean (1995)

Not till summer's fever gives place to gentle winter does it bloom and fruit; and estivating animals rise from their dens and migratory birds come home. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1973)

XII Most of the year, Vixen's northern half was simply desert, swamp, or prairie, where a quick vegetative life sprang up and animals that had been estivating crept from their burrows. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1965)

Turtles in the nature reserves responded to the drying up of the wetlands by estivating, lying dormant buried under leaf litter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A nonmutated Haluk person can still expect to spend 140 days estivating in a chrysalis, two hundred days as a gracilomorph, and sixty as a transitional lepidodermoid. " ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1998)