Non-honey bees

I decided to look at my old cartoons in Polish, from Pod kreską, and translate some of the bee pieces. I hope you’ll like them.

This cartoon is not quite consistent with the name of the site – it’s about yes-honey bees. As you might know, this species is quite unusual in many respects, and overwintering is one of them. Honeybees don’t hibernate like all wild bees in my area (and, I suppose, like the majority of bee species in the regions where there’s seasonality in climate) but they form a winter cluster in their nest, maintaining a temperature about 20 Celcius degrees or more. During the whole period of overwintering, the workers don’t defecate – they do it only outside the nest, when the weather is mild enough to come out.