Bees In Winter

 

Unlike other insects in the winter, honeybees don’t hibernate. Instead, they cluster together in a ball, staying awake all winter inside their hive eating honey while “shivering” their flight muscles to keep warm. Native bees' parents don’t survive long enough to overwinter, but the brood cells of larvae metamorphose into adults before winter arrives. The food supply left for them is enough to keep them fed until they hatch as adults in the spring to reproduce again.