Why does wind create a problem for a rooftop colony in winter?
When the city council approved hives on downtown rooftops, many residents expected stings and swarms. Instead, the beekeepers report calm colonies that forage in parks and along the river. A single hive can hold thirty thousand bees, yet most people at street level never notice them. The real challenge, according to one keeper, is winter: a colony must cluster around its queen and shiver to stay warm, and wind across an exposed roof can drain its stored honey in weeks. Keepers now wrap their hives and add windbreaks, treating the rooftop less as a novelty than as a small farm with hard seasonal rules.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. It can use up the honey the bees rely on to stay warm
- Step 1: The passage says bees cluster and shiver to stay warm. Step 2. Wind across an exposed roof can drain stored honey in weeks. Answer: it can use up the honey. Why not the others: the other effects are not stated in the passage.
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