> Bees make way more than they can use.
When in captivity. In the wild they make what they'll need to abscond or swarm when the time comes, and they do really take all of it with them in those cases.
When in captivity. In the wild they make what they'll need to abscond or swarm when the time comes, and they do really take all of it with them in those cases.
(There are lots of escaped, unmanaged honeybee colonies in North America, but it's unclear how many true feral colonies there are --- true feral colonies overwinter and reproduce).