There's been a long-standing glitch in which green gralats that spawned from bee-spawning bushes/grass would ocassionally turn into bees. Yesterday some dev, maybe in an attempt to "fix" that issue, screwed up big-time and every single time a bush/grass spawned a green gralat in a bee spawning area (most of the bushes around Graal city, mod, Onnett, and all the bushes and grass in snowtown and all of Destiny), a bee spawned instead. So suddenly bees were spawning like crazy. It was bee-mania. They were spawning like mad.
Instead of simply fixing the problem, they took out bees altogether. Bees have always spawned in winter. But because a dev screwed up, we all have to suffer. Like many others, bee farming was my main way of making gralats. And I was trying to save up for Xmas.
It would be nice if we could get an explanation on this. And not "bees were never intended to spawn during winter" BS. Because they always have.