>>> ... top box still full of honey as well as many frames in lower box right next to cluster. A large (cantaloupe size) cluster with lots of bee's heads in cells, queens present, many dead bees on bottom board...
Dead cluster with bees heads in cells is a typical description of starvation. Now begs the question, why didn't the bees move up to the frames of honey above them in the upper chamber? I am assuming the dead cluster was in the bottom hive body and had frames of honey in the second hive body above them.
Mike in LA
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