Time for a new subect line.

>I have had bees that have starved because it was simply too cold for too long to move the cluster across the frames and as a result starved out within 1" of honey.

My belief is that there is something wrong with such bees -- too few, too old, diseased, or somehow otherwise compromised -- but the weather gets the blame.

The bees might have survived if not for the cold, but my guess is that they would not be good for much.

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