Need thoughts on desert wintering

Exactly. And when I see them doing that and offer them pollen they go nuts over it. When I give them pollen at times they are not doing those things, they don’t seem to care about my pollen.

Adam winter bees are fed vitellogenin and are known as “fat” bees. That is why they live longer

Thanks Michael, that sounds fair & reasonable to me:)

Yes Valli is quite correct it’s a protein made by the bees’ fat body

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That’s a very interesting observation, I wonder what the bees did with those things once they got them back to their hives.