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During the winter, bees eat honey. The honey is calorie-rich and carbohydrate-loaded honey, and is the perfect fuel. Worker bees eat this honey and use the energy it provides to fuel rapid contractions of their wing muscles. Pumping these muscles without flying creates heat.
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Do bees eat sugar?
Beekeepers will feed their bees sugar-syrup before winter and in early spring - a mixture of water and sugar.
What does every bee eat?
pollen. from the centers of flowers. that's why there are no bees in winter. no pollen.
If we eat the honey do the bees die?
No, beekeepers remove most of the honey that the bees produce during the summer but replace it with sugar-syrup so that the bees won't starve to death during the winter.
What does hummingbirds eat in the winter?
Honey.The bees build up a store of honey during the summer which they eat through the winter. Beekeepers will take a surplus of honey from the hive, but won't take all the honey there is. They also feed the bees with sugar syrup after taking the honey to make sure the bees have enough to see them through the winter.
What do honey bees eat?
Bees will eat most sugary things,they like honey the most.I have read most articles and everyone else said that they eat honey.Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/What_does_bees_eat#ixzz1UYIx1CCH
What eats honey bees?
Bees eat honey.Bees ingest the nectar of plants and flowers only to regurgitate it (after it has mixed with enzymes in the bees stomach) as honey.The honey is placed into cells and capped with wax. In order for bees to survive the winter they have to have sufficient honey stored in the hive, because that is their food. Bees will also eat sugar syrup (thick sugar water).They do also eat pollen, but its not a main food source and is actually mixed with honey and mostly used for royal jelly that the larva eat.Worker bees eat pollen and honey. The queen bee eats royal jelly.
What kind of insects do honey bees eat?
honey bees eat no insects but do eat nectar
What do bees eat for lunch?
Bees eat pollen and nectar from flowers for lunch.
Do bees eat carrot?
No. Bees eat honey that they make from nectar of flowers.
What do burrowing bees eat?
Burrowing bees eat pollen and nectar, just like any other kind of bees.
What time do bees go to sleep?
in the winter
How do bees get their food in winter?
they get food during spring and summer and store it for winter.
