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they get food during spring and summer and store it for winter.
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Why do bees build big hive?
to take care of the babies and store food to survive winter
What happens to honey bees in winter?
Cluster to keep the queen warm and manage food supplies inside the hive and die or forage outside the hive are the things that happen to honey bees in winter. The course of the winter depends upon the population levels in the hive and the temperature levels. A cold winter results in bees inside the hive if conditions are not crowded (with ejections if they are) whereas a warm winter yields occasional forages back and forth, indoors and outdoors.
How do you think the hive of bees survive the winter when there are no flowers to feed on?
Foraging bees will fly up to three miles (five kilometres) from the hive to find sources of nectar, but when nectar is not available bees will feed on their stored honey. A bee colony will normally store more than enough honey during the summer to see them through the following winter. When a beekeeper takes honey from the hive, he will make sure the bees survive the winter by providing sugar syrup for them to feed on.
What time do bees go to sleep?
in the winter
What are the foods of the bees?
The food of bees is necter
What is the difference of a hornets and honey bees?
Ground bees are native bees. They can pollinate plants and feed on nectar, but they do no need to create food store to survive through the winter. Almost all die off. Honey bees pollinate plants as a side-effect of their nectar-gathering activities. Because they maintain a population over winter, they need to store food. Hence, they make honey. ___________ Honey bees will be a colony of thousands in one nest, where ground bees are solitary bees, one bee (raising a brood) to the nest, though there may be dozens of these solitary nest in the same area Lar
Why are honey bees eaiest to take care of?
I am not sure easiest is necessarily the best word, but the reason we keep honey bees rather than any other variety of bee is for the honey. Although other bees, such as bumble bees, do make honey it is only in small amounts because they don't need to save stores for the winter (the queens hibernate, the others die). Honey bees on the other hand don't hibernate so need to build up a stock of food during the summer to take them through the winter when nectar is not available. Beekeepers take most -- but not all -- of this honey then feed the bees during the winter with sugar syrup.
What do honey bees eat as alternative food?
During the flowering season, the main source of food for a honey bee will be nectar which the bee feeds on directly from the plant. During the winter, when no flowers are available and it is too cold for the bee to leave the hive, the bee will eat honey which it has made and stored during the summer specifically for this purpose. If a beekeeper thinks that his bees may not have enough food to last them through the winter, he might feed them with a block of 'candy' which is mostly sugar mixed with a little water.
Why do pollen grains have a store of carbohydrates?
To provide food for the bees
Do bees live in the hive during winter?
Yes.
Do bees fly south in winter?
No they don't. THEY DIE
Why do you need to feed the bees after taking there honey?
The honey that bees produce is to feed themselves during the winter. If a beekeeper removes all of their honey, the bees would die of starvation during the winter as they have no way of replenishing their lost stores (no flowers in the winter). The bees are usually fed sugar syrup - a mixture of ordinary granulated sugar mixed with water.
