>Remainder of broodnest with scattered sealed brood, adult bees inside, some dead in process of emerging, tongues out. If you remove, mites in cells, unemerged adults generally with deformed wings. But what killed these dead "emergants" if there are no VD feacal spots in the cell? Chilling unlikely BTW I haven't seen this recently dave *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm