Where do BEEs go in the Winter
Honeybees stop flying when the weather gets cold. They cluster inside their hive, where they generate heat by shivering the muscles used for flying. They survive on stored honey. Their shivering together keeps the temperature at the centre of the hive at around 27 degrees celsius. Workers rotate from the outside to the inside of the cluster ensuring no bees get cold. |
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Bumblebees: typically they nest in small colonies. In autumn the worker bees and drone bees die off leaving a new, young bumblebee queen. She finds a place to hibernate underground and establishes a new colony in the spring. Wasps: most wasps die off in the winter, while mated queens will hibernate. They shelter in closed off places, hiding in crevices. Many of the queens will die due to predatory spiders, or from starvation. If the winter is warm, or mild, the queens come out of hibernation early. Carpenter Bees hibernate in tunnels they drill into old wood. They hide out in these tunnels over the winter. They come out in the spring and mate. The mated females will find a new place to nest and begin drilling into wood. They lay their eggs and the next generation will emerge as adults in the summer. Trulynolen.ca and Plantura.garden |
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