Hello
1. About the insects.
There are a lot of insects, who are resistant against cold temperatures.
So a biologist told me, the best winter to kill insects is a winter with cold and wet warm times, then again cold times.
The eggs can stand minus temperatures, then it goes warmer, so they get water inside their cells, and bacterias and fungus too, this could kill them.
If in this stage it goes cold again, then the eggs are nearly dead, because the frozen water breaks their cellhulls.
So it's not so clear, if a warm winter is good for insects, because their eggs can be attacked a lot by their natural enemys(fungus + bacterias).
Depends on the insect.
As long as we can go skiing in Dubay near Saudi Arabia the whole year in an indoor
hall, we will have snow in the future.
Wasn't there a real winter attack in california?
And our last winter had snow until end of march.
Perhaps the winter just changes his place, where he likes to be.
BTW.
I just heard the news about the weather.
New york plus 20 degrees celsius
New Foundland (Canada, a little bit north minus 40 degrees celsius)
This makes a storm which goes directly to europe over the Atlantic, in five or seven days I can tell you,
how worth he was here.
Regards
Plueschinger
. Skåne is the district in the very end of Sweden (Scania). I used to live in Laponia, where the snow could be more than 150 centimetres deep.
And the 
but we here in Ottawa finally have snow to shovel and the local ski hills are planning to open more runs as soon as they can groom them 
