 it was um i turned off my fence i lit my smoker even though i didn't see bees foraging just to be on the safe side and by the third hive in of opening the hives and seeing the colonies had went from full decently relatively strong colonies down to less than a handful of bees i called doug from douglas apiaries who's been my mentor for the almost the last 10 years and described what i was seeing by the fifth or sixth hive in i was calling the provincial inspector