Got a call from my cousin tonight just as I got home from work...he lives in Monterey which is about 38 miles from here..He said, he found a pile of dead bees in his driveway, under the arch of an oak tree. He said they were dropping out of the tree and he could hear them plop to the ground :'(.
He said that he went to sweep them up, but bees came at him from elsewhere...so he went indside.
I asked him to go outside and look in the tree, and sure enough, there is a swarm up there in the oak...He is supposed to send me pics tonight...
I can only speculate as to why the bees are/ have died...I told him that the swarm may move on...or not...I would offer to try and collect the swarm..but if bees are dying, I think not...
Any ideas? I was thinking...maybe bees got into Buckeye, or got into poison , or weer sick to begin with???
What do you all think???