As I finish this article the snow is laying around slowly getting dirtier as it does.
The other night we heard noises from across the road. The cats leaped up and looked alarmed, and asked to go out but when I opened the door they just stood at the door looking in the direction of the woods. From the dense blackness of the woodland high pitch barking was emitting we quickly decided it was a couple of young foxes playing about as a prelude to the mating season. After more noisy posturing they went away.
Our pheasant population has expanded to six females and two cocks. Every now and then the Cock birds meet and more posturing goes on until one, usually the young one who is I think not a year old, scurries away pursued by the older one. The ladies looked on with disinterest and continued feeding. (Birds have different priorities to humans). With such a collection of pheasants feeding on the crumbs of the bird feeder for the little birds, the dropped seeds soon get eaten. The ground floor birds then spend their time looking up at the feeder to see if any more is to be chucked away from above.

How do bugs (in the broadest sense) survive the winter?
Well, the truth is of course that the majority do not survive and die with the cooling weather but the summer ones will have put down their eggs so that the offspring will be born and continue the species. Without this continuing circle of nature we ourselves as a human species would not survive because all of earths creatures depend upon each other. If bees and other insects did not pollinate the plants there would not be any more plants and we would not have enough to eat.

Honey Bees have a period of expansion and when the colony gets to a certain size a young queen will fly away followed by a swarm of the workers, to a new location that suits the new queen to form another colony. The bees left behind will continue to slave on the old queen. In the winter a honeybee colony should have laid in enough stocks to keep them going until next spring when everything starts again.
There are old country rhymes that a swarm of bees in June isn't worth a tune but another rhyme says worth a silver spoon. Yet another rhyme states: a swarm of bees in May are worth a load of hay.
As I do not keep bees I wouldn't know.

Bumble Bees. Only the queen survives the harsh weather, she has already mated when the warmer weather started. She lays the worker eggs that will soon develop into grubs and adults ready to gather in the pollen when the plants begin to flower.

Wasps likewise only the queen survives but unlike the bees these are carnivorous and eat grubs and other smaller creatures.

Ladybirds these over winter huddled together in a warm crevasse

Dragon Flies, Damsel Flies,
These continue life as nymphs in a pond, some being as much as two years old before they emerge as adults.

Butterflies
Depending on species, some of these hibernate as adults - the ones born in late summer /early autumn. Examples are Brimstone, Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, and Red Admiral. You may find some in an outhouse or shed, where temperatures may be slightly warmer. Others over hibernate in a chrysalis state while others, the Browns for example over winter as caterpillars, burrowing down into the roots of grasses.