Digital Whittler

My bee colony died this winter, most likely in late January. I had checked on them in mid-January during a warm spell and they were dangerously low on food. I fed them 5 lbs. of sugar fondant but the next time I checked on them, they were dead.

I went out today to clean the hive and took some pictures.

This photo looks like it could have been taken of a frame full of live honeybees. Unfortunately, they’re in perpetual freeze-frame.

Once I brushed away the dead bees from the surface of the frame you can see the sure evidence that they starved to death: a frame full of bees head first in the honeycomb. They died desperately looking for honey.