One of the most frequently asked questions I get asked around this time of year is “what do the honeybees do over winter?”. They do a kind of hibernation: as the days get shorter and the temperature drops, the honeybees mostly stay in their hive keeping warm. If they have brood (bee larvae) then the internal temperature of the hive will be around 35°C, but in December when the days are at their shortest, they may enter a broodless period where they’ll allow the temperature to