> I don't think so, I found several frames with capped honey immediately
> surrounding cluster in bottom box.
>

That is still consistent with starvation. BTDT in my first few years of
beekeeping I lost a colony just as you describe- great bees, went away for
less than a week and dead when I returned. Honey all around the dead bees.

It does not take much time for it to happen and this spring in New England
has been a classic set-up for starvation.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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