I live in the Taconic Hill Country on the NY/MA line.
I finally was able to check my three hives this weekend and found two very 
strong and ready for a super but one had about 2 cups of dead bees on the 
bottom board and brood about the size of a softball on only 3 frames.  
Plus very little open brood, no eggs and no queen that I could find-but I 
am not very good at finding queens and it was windy and chilly so I did 
not look that long. All three hives had plenty of honey.
In the past I would have assumed I have a poor queen and/or varroa 
mites/tracheal mites.  Do you folks think that this is correct?  Does 
requeening still seem like the way to go? 
Any thoughts from more experienced hands would be appreciated.  Howard 
Kogan/ Falling Tree Farm

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