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Re: Deadout Week of 24-30MAR
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Mike S <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:51:36 -0700
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>>>    ... 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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