If torpor isn't defined by body temperature but it's about "metabolic rate" then why is the diapause of the ants (other insects also participate) not considered torpor?

Further if a long torpor is a hibernation why correct people who say "the ants are hibernating"

"the ants are in diapause" is more correct. But I thought this was because only endotherms could hibernate.

I am confusion.

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