Have a guess what this is! (answer below)
Hard to believe that in a few months the inhabitants of these little houses will be busy buzzing about among the flowers again.
Why Do Bees Make Honey?
Honeybees are special in that they over winter as a colony unlike wasps and bumblebees. The colony does not hibernate but stays active and clusters together to stay warm. This requires a lot of food stored from the summer before. 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. Bees have been producing honey the same way for over one hundred and fifty million years.
Quote from http://www.britishbee.org.uk/faq.php
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these are the cutest little bee hives i have ever seen. our bees must be asleep for the winter, we usualy have them year round in florida, but not this year. beautiful shot
The beehives seem smaller than they really are because they are half buried in snow!
Beehives are very prominent all over NZ. I love bees (and detest wasps). I was in the beekeeping society at school. However I had no idea that bees had been at work for so long.
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