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Do bees come out in winter?

Bees don't come out in winter

Although bees don't hibernate in winter, they don't go out when the weather is cold in winter, but spend the whole winter by storing honey.

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Bees belong to Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Spoturopoda, Apiidae and Apiidae in insect taxonomy, and are an important group of Hymenoptera. According to fossil data, a large number of bees have been found in the late Eocene strata of Tertiary, and many species of APIs have great economic value and are closely related to human life. There are records of bees and their uses in ancient China.

Many kinds of products or behaviors are closely related to medicine (such as honey, royal jelly and bee venom), agriculture (such as crop pollination) and industry (such as beeswax and propolis). They are called resource insects. The most familiar ones are Italian bees and oriental bees, which are domesticated artificially to make honey. Bees belong to Hymenoptera and Apiidae.

It is a flying social insect. They are called resource insects. 8-20 mm long, brown or dark brown, with thick hair; The head is almost as wide as the chest; The waist is thinner than the chest and abdomen; The antenna is knee-shaped, the compound eye is oval, the mouthparts are chewing and sucking, and the hind feet are powder-carrying feet; Two pairs of membrane wings, the front wing is big and the rear wing is small, and the front and rear wings are connected by wing hooks.