2007-01-10 15:13:28 · 9 answers · asked by pinky p 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
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Since bees derive their food supply from the nectar of flowers, and flowers don't really bloom in winter, they need to store up food for the winter months, the same way that humans used to jar fruits and vegetables before 1960. Bees have the capacity to store nectar as a condensed sugar -- honey.
Namaste,
--Tom
2007-01-10 15:19:48 · answer #1 · answered by glassnegman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Honeybees are special in that they over winter as a colony unlike wasps and bumblebees (see Biology). 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.
2007-01-10 23:17:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For food. They gather the pollen to place into the cells for the developing baby bees. The nectar is gathered and taken back to the hive and put into cells (where it becomes honey) for later use as food.
2007-01-10 23:20:59 · answer #3 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to keep it more simple than other answers.....the honey is the food for the little baby bees....or i always have heard that.
2007-01-12 13:35:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For food.
2007-01-10 23:20:46 · answer #5 · answered by Shemit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is their food source.
2007-01-11 00:14:17 · answer #6 · answered by patti duke 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god gift to bee.
2007-01-11 00:39:13 · answer #7 · answered by saja 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mind your own beeswax.. Ha ha
2007-01-10 23:19:56 · answer #8 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
to get honeybee....
2007-01-10 23:44:09 · answer #9 · answered by mr_BIG 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋