Oh where do the bees go?
So where do these flying stingers go after they have had months of beautiful warm weather, well the answer depends on the type of bee. Let’s start with the ultimate stinging machine, wasps. Wasps (Hornet and Yellow jackets) populations tend to become a major concern in late spring until early fall. Unlike other bees, they can become very aggressive throughout their lives. When temperatures begin to fall, so does their activity level. All wasps die except the newly fertilized queen, she will search out a shelter for the winter and will go into diapause (a natural break of the growth marked by decrease of metabolic activity). Next we have honeybees, the queens and worker bees live and work together within a hive and all live through the winter. When temperatures begin to drop closer to the freezing mark, the bees create a dense mass within their hive and eat the honey they produced through the summer. Normally, there is enough honey to sustain them for a half a year. And finally bumblebees- the oversized honeybees. Similar to wasps, only the newly fertilized queens will live through the winter. The young queens will dig into dry soil, normally north-facing, where they go into hibernation. Hibernation can take up a large amount of a bumblebee’s life, and some queen bees can hibernate for nine months.
https://gogreenpestcontrol.ca/oh-where-do-the-bees-go/
gogreenpestcontrol.ca Ladner Tsawwassen Delta B.C. Randy Bilesky BsF CPA
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oh-where-do-bees-go-randy-bilesky/?published=t
http://www.delta-optimist.com/opinion/blogs/blog-oh-where-do-the-bees-go-1.23325561
