do honey bees hibernate?
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Although a hive only needs 20-30 lb. of honey to survive an average winter, the bees are capable, if given the space of collecting much more. This is what the beekeeper wants them to do. Honey Bees are the highest form of insect life, they live in a well organised colony that does not need to hibernate. They produce honey and store it in wax comb and use the same hive from one year to the next.\n\nIndeed, they make lots of honey so they will have plenty of food for times when flower nectar is unavailable, such as winter.  Unlike most insects, honeybees remain active through the winter, consuming and metabolizing honey in order to keep from freezing to death.\n\nWorkers born early in the season will live about 6 weeks while those born in the fall will live until the following spring.
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yes because the computer actually turns off. hibernation just means that the ram is written on the hard drive, later the system can be restored to the state it was in when hibernating, so that programs can continue executing as if nothing happened.
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They group together within their nest/mound and go into something called "diapause," which is the insect equivalent of hibernation. Their bodies freeze and they just shut down and become active again once the temperatures reach a warm enough level.
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Ok, I so have to ask. Where are you going camping in January where there will be bees? *shrugs* Sorry......that's how my mind works. \n\nBut let's pretend that there is a warm sunny place where the bees haven't hibernated and you don't want to run the risk of being stung. I'm allergic to bee stings so I so know what you mean about these icky pests. "Cutter" works great and "Deep Woods Off" for mosquitos and those type of pests. But bees? I'm not sure we have a deterent for these little suckers yet.Yes, sweat attracts them.....but usually because of the sweetness of the lotions, aftershaves, colognes etc. that we have put on our bodies. Even soap and shampoo can affect this. Use a soap with no perfumes. (Ivory) And just make sure you rinse that long flowing hair of yours completely before getting out of the shower. Also, the only time I've seen bees was around the trash cans. So choose a spot away from others.......away from trash. And dispose of yours so that they don't getinto it......(or bears). Pour pine sol on it before you go to bed and it keeps raccoons and possoms and lions and tigers and bears (oh my) away from it. Ok how did I get from bees to bears?? Ok back to the subject. \n\nWasps are worse (or mud dobbers) that build those icky nests in grills and under picnic tables. So take some wasp spray. Why there is wasp spray and not bee spray I have no idea.........but there is. *shrugs*\n\nHope some of this nonsense helps. It actually has for me...kinda sorta maybe. And have a fabulous time camping!
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That would depend on when you check.  Hibernation is a special form of torpor, a state of low activity and decreased metabolism.  Now, in hibernating bears the temperature drops about the same level as the ambient temperature of the burrow.  In some species that would be somewhere between 0 qand 5 degrees Celsius.  However, hibernation is a specialized torpor in that the bear will now and then spike up its temperature to its normal level of about 37 degrees Celsius.  These spikes are equally spaced over the course of hibernation.  By doing this, the animal can conserve energy in a time that otherwise might not provide enough food to maintain high energy consumption rates around the clock.  what you have to remember is that endothermia is rather expensive.  To maintain your core body temp, you need to consume a lot of food.  While ectotherms convert about 50% of the energy they take up into biomass, endotherms convert only 1.4%.  The rest goes into body heat etc.  So, if you don't have enough food throughout the winter, and you do not preserve your energy, you are - as thgey say - up the creek without a pedal. \n\nHope that helps...
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A bee hive.  Yum yum\n\nisn't honey lovely?  My fave is acacia
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A honeybee hive can typically contain up to about 40,000 individual bees at their annual peak, which occurs in the spring, but usually have fewer.
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I don't think porcupines hibernate, they will use dens, and tree hollows to sleep in.  I know they can climb because I once was out hiking and found a mother and her baby up high in a tree.
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some animals in winters sleep ie the whone winter they sleep n this is not actual sleep but actually they appears dead ie no motion of body .There is no movement and it takes a long time for it to wake up enough to even walk around.before hibernation \nDuring the fall, hibernating animals eat more food than usual.  Their bodies will live off their body fat as they ‘sleep’ through winter.  The animal will use up the body fat it stores and not lose any muscle.  This causes the animal to come out of hibernation thinner but still as strong as it was in the fall.
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Polar bears do not hibernate, though the lactating females will not emerge from their cave while the cubs are very young. The mother will not have eaten for nine months, thus relying on stored body fat also known as blubber for both her own nutrition and that of the cubs
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A bee. With its life-saving honey. I will call her Queen. :)
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They do not become your minion. The bee colony is centered to the queen bee as it is the only individual in the colony with the capability to breed and renew the colony's numbers. Thus without the queen a colony would soon be wiped out with no new bees born. If you have a queen bee, the entire colony will follow it and make the nest whereever the queen resides. Beekeepers often use this method to keep hives by securing the queen in a hive with outlets only the smaller worker bees are capable of entering and exiting since the queen is several sizes larger. When they move the hive, the entire colony follows. You do not become the bees rulers, they just tolerate you and are only devoted to theur queen.
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Several months for honey bees and up to several years for bumble bees.
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Yes, and they make one the best honey!\n\nKiller bees been producing honey as they do today for at least 100 million years (since the Cretaceous period)*. Killer Bees produce honey as food stores for the hive during the long months of winter when flowers aren't blooming and therefore little or no nectar is available to them. European honey bees, genus Apis Mellifera, produce such an abundance of honey, far more than the hive can eat, that humans can harvest the excess. For this reason, European honey bees can be found in beekeeper's hives around the world!
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Forever is a long time, I don't think anything can be preserved for ever.  Honey can be be preserved for along time on it's own it's been found in Egyptian Tombs several thousands of years old and still good.
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The Life Cycle of the Bumble Bee.\nEvery Autumn as the first frosts begin the mated young queens seek out a place to hibernate in safety. If you come across a live but sleepy bee in a pile of leaves in Winter don't damage it. Its not dying, just in a deep cold sleep like a hedgehog. Put it back where you found it and cover it gently against the cold.\n\nIn the first warm days of Spring you may see the large queens flying busily about the early bulbs and flowers. These large slow bees are searching for nectar and pollen to turn into honey and food for their newly hatching brood. So the organic gardener plants lots of pollen producing flowers and leaves an unmown patch of early dandelions in the wild garden or hedgerow to feed the young queens.\n\nThe queen will locate a suitable place to build her nest. There are over 200 types of bumble bee and they look for a variety of sites. Most common are the leaf litter in a hedge bottom, an old mouse hole, a cool dark place under a large stone or under the wooden floor of a garden shed or other building. Because the bumble bee does not live in a large colony the nest is usually little bigger than half a grapefruit even in the busiest days of high Summer.\n\nThe queen begins a new nest with a ball of pollen and wax into which she lays just a few (approx 6 ) eggs at a time. When the eggs hatch they try to eat their way through the pollen reserve but the queen continually adds to the pollen and wax sealing them in. Eventually the grubs pupate and the queen spins a bright yellow cocoon of the finest silk from which the grubs emerge a few days later as fully grown worker bees.\n\nAs soon as they dry their wings the worker bees begin work to support the colony and their queen. She continues to lay eggs but as it takes more and more of her time the pollen and nectar collection is delegated to the workers, the queen spending her whole time in the nest. \n\nThis co-operation continues throughout the high days of late Spring and Summer until the nest has reached the right size for its species. At that point the queen lays eggs destined to become next years queen bees as well as drones or male bees. The drones once hatched leave the nest and live independent lives, their only purpose being to mate with the young queens to ensure the survival of the species. Unlike honey bees the young bumble queens will continue to live and work in the mother colony for the remainder of the Summer and Autumn.\n\nCome the first sharp drop in temperature and frosts the old queen, her workers and the independent drones will die. Only the newly mated queens will survive in hibernation to begin the cycle again the following Spring.
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It depends on the insect. Some die off leaving eggs behind to hatch next season (like the Praying Mantis). I have heard some critters replace the water in their bodies with glycerin so they don't freeze during the cold months.