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Dead Bees around Hive Entrance

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#1 ·
Yesterday was cool in Northern Wisconsin. My new hive (2 weeks) had a number of dead bees around hive entrance..it was raining a bit. Its the first time I've seen this in the two weeks since I got the bees (Italian)...any thoughts?
 
#5 ·
I figured that this was pretty normal. My understanding is that when you get a package you get bees in all stages of development. Some of them are just older and they will die off naturally and the other bees will just push them out of the hive. We've been pretty cold and rainy here in PA as well and the bees don't seem to want to go too far from the hive when its like this.

I had about 15-20 dead bees in front of my hive the last time I took a look at them. It didn't cause me any alarm at the time.
 
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