Michael J. Wolf wrote:
>
  They seemed to be going for the incandescent light, and
> would buzz around the windows on the south side of the house (the side
> closest to the hive) from twilight into the hours of midnight and beyond.
> In the morning, there were piles of +- 100 dead bees below each window.
>
> This went on for +- 10 days, and by that time, the colony was on a serious
> decline to the point of failure by November.
>
Mike,
 
When you send in a perplexing problem like this it means no one knows
what to say.  I know that when I first sent in a similarly perplexing
problem (not the same sort of thing) I got not one response.  There are
situations that the most experienced beekeeper cannot deal with.  Yours
may be one of these.  I know I have no ideas.  But, the question got
through.
 
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"Test everything.  Hold on to the good."  (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
 
Tom Elliott
Eagle River, Alaska
U.S.A.
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