The web of the black widow is an irregular mesh with a funnel-shaped hiding place built in. They help keep insect populations down. We don't like for them to be in our houses, though. If we could catch them and put them outside, that would probably be the best thing to do, but sometimes we have to kill them. This is a honeybee gathering pollen from the yellow flower, like Buzzina the Queen of the Valley Hive in the book.
Honey bees are very social in that they all live together in home, or apiary.
They live all winter long in their apiary which they heat by eating honey they have stored during the summer. The heat energy they give off from eating the honey keeps the inside of the apiary warm enough that the bees do not freeze even though it may be well below zero degrees Fahrenheit.