So let?s see if I?m following this conversation.
If you open your hive and it has dead bees with their heads in the cells, a pile of bees on the bottom board and no honey they starved.
If you open the hive and have a ball of bees still over the bees with their heads in the cells, (which have not yet fallen) spanning over 3 frames of dead brood,(that the ants and yellow jackets haven?t eaten yet) and are still visible. And there is honey and nectar that is 1.5 inches away, (that has not been robbed out yet). Did they freeze or not move of the brood and starve? Or did they die from varroa, nosema, or some other malady? Just wondering.