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Do Bees Hibernate in the Winter?

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Honey bees don't hibernate as such. They spend the winter in whichever place they have spent the summer and cluster together to keep warm. If there are any warm sunny days during the winter they will come out of their hive and fly around on an 'evacuation' flight.

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Honey bees, no. In winter the queen will stop laying, so numbers in the hive will be reduced by deaths due to old age, but the bees don't hibernate. In spring the queen starts laying again and numbers increase.

Bumble bees, yes. Young queens will find a sheltered place to hibernate through the winter; all others will die as the cold weather comes. In spring the queen comes out of hibernation and searches for a place to create a nest, then starts a new colony.

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Bumble bees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and the like generally do die when the cold weather comes, with only the new queens hibernating through the winter to start the new colonies the following spring.

Honey bees are different because they don't hibernate: the colony remains active throughout the winter although they won't fly out of the hive if it is too cold. During the winter the queen will have stopped laying, and some of the workers will die through natural causes (old age). However, when spring comes there will still be a fair number of workers and as the weather improves and they can start foraging for nectar and pollen the queen will start laying again and the colony will grow.

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Some bee's usually die. Other bee's make a nest/home and sleep until winter is over.

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they dont stay any where in the winter exept the warm climate areas. the bees die because its too cold in the winter.

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It depends on weather conditions and temperature levels in their local area.

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Yes, because there are few flowers available in winter and it's too cold for the bees to leave the hive.

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the honey and the warm tree

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yes they do

No they don't.

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