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Bees are cold blooded, but there is a common misconception that their bodies are at the same temperature as their surroundings. This is not so. If a bee's body temperature drops below about 25°C (75°F) it is unable to fly, and if its temperature falls to 15°C (50°F) it will become comatose. Any cooler and the bee will die.
When flying, a bee's flight muscles generate quite a lot of heat, but if the air temperature drops below about 17°C (54°F) it will start to lose heat faster than it can generate it. For this reason, at lower temperatures the bees will not venture far from the hive.
When it is really cold the bees will not leave the hive at all but will cluster on the comb, vibrating their wing muscles (without moving the wings) to generate heat. They will maintain the center of the cluster at about 36°C (95°F) and the cluster will tighten as the outside temperature falls. Bees on the outside of the cluster will move in as they start to get too cold.
As the outside temperature rises again in the spring, the cluster will loosen, and eventually the bees will start flying out of the hive again.
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∙ 13y agobecause the cold will kill them in the winter. they come out to sting us (lol) in the summer only because they can survive in the summers' weather.
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Do bees live in the hive during winter?
Yes.
Do bees poop in there hive?
Yes, in the winter when it is too cold for them to leave their hive.
Where the bees live in?
hive
Will bees come back next year?
This is a silly question. If you have a hive of bees then they don't fly south for the winter. they make honey to live on during winter time >>. they stay at home.
A place where bees live is a?
Honey bees live in a hive, bumble bees live in a nest.
Were do honey bees live .?
Beekeepers keep bees in a hive and more than one hive is known as an apiary.
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.
What habit do honey bees live in?
A hive
Do bees stay in there hive in the winter?
no they go to go to a warmer climate
Is it a cold winter if bee hive are up high?
No,bees do it in autumn.
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 is a hive?
A hive is something that bees live in. It can also be "a place in which people are busily occupied."
