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am going to collect the dead ones tonight and inspect them. and then perhaps if the weather is nice I will open the box up this weekend and have a poke around. I know they've had the varroa and nosene treatments recently so they haven't been neglected.

thanks!

thanks! the dying bees are just, well, listless ... one of them was pulling himself up a blade of grass, not sure why, another was trying to crawl towards the box ... a third was actually on top of the box. I guess I could block the entrance up a bit more to make it difficult for the wasps.

Hello, I'm new to this. I counted seven dead or dying bees this morning by the nuc box entrance, one of them being eaten on the landing board by a wasp! I know bees die off quite regularly I just didn't expect quite such carnage. I think most of the dead and dying looked intact so perhaps...