Where do wasps/bees go during the winter?

Answer 1

What happens to bees in winter?
Generally speaking, the social bees do not summer in the South during the winter, as do migratory birds, but, instead, live or die in their natural environs.

The young queen bumblebee, who earns her title by being the one egg-laying female, or queen mother, in the colony of social bees, does survive the winter. She does so by burrowing out a hold in a well-drained sandbank, or simply by taking the easy way out by moving into a pre-owned home, such as a deserted mouse nest. Once settled into her nest, she plays happy homemaker and makes beebread from the nectar and the pollen she collected all summer, dumps the load of bread, lays eggs on it, covers it with wax, and relaxes atop it.

Approximately 250,000 eggs later, her Highness washes her hands of the whole thing, and leaves the work to her offspring. As soon as the workers, or fertilized, but non-egg producing females sprout wings, they set to work, and only later get assistance in the form of drones, or unfertilized males. The workers bees and drones, who toiled for the queen all summer, are rewarded for their efforts by a certain death in winter.
2)Living with Bees and Wasps

Answer 2

i think bees stay in the hive, and wasps lay eggs in those paper nests they build and then die.

Answer 3

Thats a good question. Maybe they fly down south too

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bees

Answer 5

currently, my attic is full of them. I have heard that WD40 or Formula 409 will kill them instantly.

Answer 6

down south where it is warmer

Answer 7

into their hive, where they hibernate.