In my garden, I see the same bugs most of the time. I seldom wonder much about them. But I recently asked myself “Do ants sleep?” That led me to the interwebs and I wandered around looking at the sleeping habits of the four bugs I see most often. Ants, bees, butterflies, and spiders.
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Studies show that ants take little 1 minute naps about 250 times in a 24 hour period. Those naps add up to almost 5 hours of sleep a day.
Bees legs go limp, they slump over and they can fall over sideways, to be held up by others. Honey bees sleep between 5 and 8 hours a day. 80% of bees are active at any one time.
Butterflies rest with their eyes open, hidden in leaves, often hanging upside down from the bottom of the leaves to avoid predators.
Spiders have no eyelids, so they can’t close their eyes to rest. They remain alert to their surroundings, just lowering their metabolism and decreasing energy needs but ready to pounce.
I sometimes grumble to myself that I don’t sleep very well, but at least I sleep longer than 1 minute at a time, I don’t have to hang upside down from a leaf. I definitely am not alert and ready to pounce when I sleep, although I might fall over sideways sometimes.
Be safe and be well. Get some sleep.