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Do bees use honey for shelter?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No! Honey bee colonies use tree hollows, man made hives, or any suitable space they can find, or bee covering for shelter!
If a swarm cannot find a suitable hollow or man made hive for shelter, as a final resort they will build comb in the place they swarmed to (usually a tree branch). To protect the eggs and larvae within the comb the bees themselves form a living wall to shelter the colony, forming an outer layer, and regulating temperature and humidity by their number and compactness, and collection of water, to be distributed inside the colony, and which is fanned to cool the colony (a behaviour observable at the entrance to any man made hive).

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