>This morning I left home quickly and failed to close my bee shop door. On >return I found 1,000's of bees gorging themselves on my empptied super , work >dishes etc that were honey laden.I thought they would go home when darkness >fell. I find thsat they are clumping together in small bands, with heaps >below the glass window while they haad not far to go to pass through the >still open door. Many are hanging on the floursescent tubes, extinguished. It >will be cold tonight and I fear than many will die. >I plan to move them into a container tomorrow and take to my apiary.Closing >the door to be sure! I am going to put a little heat on to keep them alive >until dawn. > >Anyone have good suggestions for saving them please respond quickly They should be ok if they have some food in thie r belly but you may want to brush them into a conatiner and spray them with WARM thin syrup,Keep them in total dark and the when the outside temp is above 45 take them outside and see what they do. I sent a previous message but my computer did not wrok right I have lots ofways to work with cold bees . I this message works Ill send another Jerry Fries