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How do you think the hive of bees survive the winter when there are no flowers to feed on?
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∙ 9y ago
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.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 9y agoBees store honey in the hive and use that for food and fuel during the winter. A typical hive can store up to 60-70 pounds of honey for the winter months.
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When is the best time to rob honey bees?
The best time to rob honey bees is in he springtime when flowers and fruit orchards begin to bloom. If you rob the bees when there is no supply of nectar, the bees will not have enough honey to weather the winter.
Are bees and flowers biotic in an ecosystem?
Yes because biotic means living and bees and flowers are biotic, so therefor they are both biotic
What animal do bees not like?
i think yellow all i know they like yellow. don't listen to that other guy. red, apparently they can't see it. bee preference is usually formed by scent. think foul smelling flowers, their polinators are likely flies and beetles not bees. they also dislike avocado and custard apple flowers, something to do with the mineral content of the flower. as for the colour red, its true bees do not see red (they see it as black) but flowers have many marking invisable to the human eye aim at atracting bees.
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
What months are bees most active in northeast?
Bees are most active in the northeast beginning in spring when the temperatures warm up. Their activity begins as flowers begin to bloom. They remain active throughout the summer and into the fall, when they begin to prepare for winter.
How do the actions of the bees help the flowers survive?
how do the actions of the bees help flowers survive
How do bees and flowers interact?
Its called 'interdependence.' The flowers need the bees to pollinate them to survive, but the bees need the flowers so they can make honey, and the female bees pollinate flowers and keep pollen on there legs to feed there larve.
Do bees help flowers survive?
nector is in the flowers and the bees use nector for their honey so the suck it out of the flowers and take it back to their hives
How do bees actions help the flowers survive?
Bees move from flower to flower collecting pollen and nectar. By doing this, they pollinate the flowers that they visit thereby ensuring their survival.
What does every bee eat?
pollen. from the centers of flowers. that's why there are no bees in winter. no pollen.
You have bees hives in your attic will the hives freeze in your cold winter?
Bee hives do not freeze in the winter. Bees slow down and cluster to regulate temperatures inside the hive and survive.
Do all bees pollinate flowers?
Bees of all varieties pollenate flowers, but not all bees do so. This may seem a contradiction, but only the worker bees pollinate, not the queens or drones.
Why do bees build big hive?
to take care of the babies and store food to survive winter
Can bees sting in snow?
possibly but i think they hibernate in winter
Can bumble bees wasps and yellow jackets survive cold weather?
A bee hive is an artificial home for bees which has been provided by a beekeeper to keep his bees in. In prolonged freezing conditions, bees might find it hard to survive if their hive was unprotected. However, in an average North European winter, bees will survive perfectly well within their hive provided that they are sheltered from cold winds and damp within the hive. They cluster together to keep warm, and the bees are always changing position so that the same bees aren't always on the outside of the cluster.
When is the best time to rob honey bees?
The best time to rob honey bees is in he springtime when flowers and fruit orchards begin to bloom. If you rob the bees when there is no supply of nectar, the bees will not have enough honey to weather the winter.
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.
