Timing of production of winter bees in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies

By H. Mattila, J. L. Harris, G. Otis. Insectes Sociaux, 2001

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Pesticide Residues and Bees – A Risk Assessment (2014, background): “These types are considered representative of the bee colonies during the summer, when most pesticides are applied to crops, although winter bees can be exposed to residues in nectar for up to 100 days or more [66].”
Dwindling pollen resources trigger the transition to broodless populations of long‐lived honeybees each autumn (2007, methodology): “During this time, there is a gradual replacement of the population of summer bees that die before the colony overwinters by a population of winter bees that maintain the colony throughout the winter months ( Fukuda & Sekiguchi, 1966; Mattila et al. , 2001 ).”