Where do bees go during the winter?

bee's die.


birds fly south cuz if they flew west, they'd just end up in the same place in relatiopn to the sun

 

Europe is much warmer at the same lattitude than North America.

 

yeh, its due to cold and hot water streams, but, its nowhere near as much a drastic change between here and the equator

 

Yeah. Gulf Stream.

Although I've read theory that globaly warming could end the Gulf Stream plunging Europe back into a mini ice age

 

yeh, i've read that, and, it's a def. possibility, which is scary, (esp since it would effect the UK big time)

 

a baby bee got stuck in my hair today. I flung it out.



& yes I still have not been stung

 

I used to get Japanese Hornets after me all the time... hurt like hell when they get stuck in your hair, but you can't do too much when you're on a tractor but jump off, knock her in first gear, and let it idle across the field and stall out... We had an old '61 Ford 601 (guess they're just the third generation 8N/9N from the fourties and fifties, but you'll see 8Ns more often then 9Ns or 601s. Five speed... fire engine red, but it had this goofy looking yellow/orange fade that made it look really trippy since my great-grandpa got her from the department of transportation and just bush-hogged and we fixed it up, painted it the original fire engire, then planned on doing tractor shows and pulls when I got older, but we got rid of her.)

Anywho, the bees will follow the tractor and you can duck down and run off in the other direction. If you jump in water, they'll sit and wait.

Bumblebees die off... honeybees survive. Honeybees and stingless bees are eusocial and are supposedly more advanced. Bumblebee queens can survive on their own, but the honeybees are moreso militaristic and have to have care. What Bumblebee queens will do is try to make it in honeybee hives, but they usually end up getting killed by the honeybees. If you're a beekeeper, you find them in Spring all the time...

I had an old man who lived down the road, I'd always get the mail at the general store here and he'd always be going on about beekeeping, if not, it'd be soybeans, tobacco, cotton, or his peanut farm just off the McKenney exit on I-85. Always waiting for a queen bee shipment to come in. I've also got a great uncle that runs farms in Rahleigh/Durham; those Mason jars double for some great white lightning in the Winter... I think I'm the only person on here that's a moonshine connoiseur.

Never realized I knew so much about bees.

 

i think they lay eggs and then the eggs hatch after the winter but i think the ones that were alive before winter die out