Is there a hornet's nest in winter?

Yes, because the hornet's nest is used for wasps to overwinter and so on.

The hornet's nest is the wasp's hive. The hornet's nest is the place where wasps inhabit, breed, store, live and overwinter, and it is the general name of empty spleen, honey spleen, pink spleen, daughter spleen, bee path and the internal space of the hive.

Wasps overwinter in a completely different way from bees. Bees overwinter in the whole colony, while wasps overwinter in a single colony. In winter, temporarily fertilized female bees will leave their nests and live in caves, cracks in walls, haystacks and other relatively warm and sheltered places. The lower the outside temperature, the tighter the female bees hold the group, and vice versa.

Extended data When the temperature of the hornet's nest is higher than 7℃, the overwintering bees begin to spread out and look for their own nesting sites. At this time, overwintering females are responsible for building hives, obtaining food and feeding larvae. After the first generation of bees appeared, females were responsible for breeding offspring. From the emergence of the second generation of females, a few individuals mate with males to lay eggs, and then overwintering females alternate with new females!

Hornets overwinter in droves. In the next spring, the overwintering females spread out and built their own nests. After the first generation of bees emerged, the overwintering females were responsible for laying eggs. After the second generation of bees emerged, the overwintering females alternated with the new ones. In autumn, wintering females are reared again.

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