If the bees were honeybees they may have Bees and drones shirt, which are dying at this time of year anyway. They don’t live overwinter, only the queens and a small group of workers does. In other species only the mated queen overwinters, so maybe they were dying. A common misconception about bees is that only the queen bee is female and all the others are male but actually all worker bees are female and only the drones are male. That’s wild. Winter is coming. Hand feeding one of the girls. The bees have begun collecting a lot of pollen and storing food for the winter. Drone evictions are imminent.
Buy this shirt: Bees and drones shirt