In a message dated 6/17/00 1:33:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Without the above, with the exception of death by obvious starvation, no
>  one can be certain and I suggest that giving sick combs to a number of
>  healthy colonies to clean up is a recipe for disaster.
The dead brood in question was chilled brood from a beekeepers failed
experiment with splitting over a screen where the bees returned to the other
side and didn't cover the brood.