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  • From: Marty Hanks <marty AT justbeenc.com>
  • To: Stacy Crabill <stacycrabill AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] What the heck?
  • Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:13:04 -0400

Nope!
I've never seen this. There could have been a swarm and the remain bees - now
to small to create lots of heat could have clustered in this area for heat
and to be beside food.

Was there food in the cells?
Can you go back and look for a queen cell?


Marty

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> On Apr 28, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Stacy Crabill <stacycrabill AT gmail.com> wrote:
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> I hived a package at the end of March. Queen was accepted, and I eventually
> saw brood. Yesterday I discovered that what was left of my bees had
> clustered in the hive top feeder, which the bees had not been interested in
> prior. Just a couple of frames had some dead brood. The majority of the
> rest was undrawn. Did not see the queen. I removed the feeder, but i think
> this hive is a goner. Anyone had bees cluster in the feeder before? Cause?
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