Long Stratton Swarm

One of the hives with a box feeder on was the hive with the Long Sratton swarm in it - at least there were in it. As the sun came out this afternoon after recent days of rain I thought I would remove the empty feeder from the top of the brood box.Whilst unsticking the two the brood box moved and was strangely light. It didn't take much of an inspection to see that the bees have gone taking all stores with them. More likely any stores left behind have been cleaned out by bees from other colonies, whichever way, the result was that the box was empty of both bees and stores.