A: Colonial insects, including honeybees, bumblebees, paper wasps and yellow jackets, have one queen and many workers, said Phil Pellitteri, a distinguished faculty associate in the department of entomology at UW-Madison. ?Honeybees are the only species that overwinters as a colony; they don?t go dormant and have to generate enough heat to live, so they need a minimum population of bees and plenty of honey, their energy source.?
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