Ron ponders:
> One other thing is I can not ever remember
> finding a dead colony with a large amount
> of dead bees on the inner cover nor ever
> remember losing a colony this time of year.
My swag is your bees got to robbing and the other colonies beat this hive to
death.
I had something similar happen to a pollen harvesting hive (ditto I had
never seen anything like it before) about a week after I removed the pollen
trap. I'm guessing robbing (dead bees much as Ron described) but truth be
told I'm really not sure. I will be interested in reading others'
responses.
Aaron Morris - Taking Scientific Wild Assed Guesses!
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