i've been .dead bees in the snow but not a huge number but I was anxious to look inside the hive for a quick peek.
I changed up the cedar chip pillow at the top housed in a super with a screen bottom. The top of the deep below the screen was filled with bs so I was happy to see that. I did nothing except pull out the bottom board to see if there were dead bees there. Nothing there.
Then I noticed that the front entrance had a lot of bees in front of the opening so I unscrewed the mouse guard and pulled out a lot of dead bees. I then closed it back up. No bees came out to greet me while I was doing that. However a few had come out while I was changing out the pillow.
Overall I'm happy there are still bees in there. I know I left them plenty of food by taking no honey for myself this year. Fingers crossed.
