By Deb Crockett, Senior Program Director
If you think winter has been hard on you, be glad you aren’t a honeybee! The more that I learn about honeybees, the more amazed I am by their strategies and adaptations to make it through the winter. Clustered in a tight group the size of a softball, the worker bees rotate from the inside to the outside to maintain the temperature of the core, protecting the queen from winter chills.
I am always eager, on a warm winter’s day, to check the hives to see if there is any activity. The bees “hold...
