My Bees Starved to Death!

This is an update to my previous post dated March 27.
 
My bees starved to death.  They had about 20 lbs of honey left in the hive and a division board feeder that was full of sugar water.  The queen started laying to build up for the spring, but the cluster of bees was relatively small and unwilling to move away from the brood nest to access the honey stores during a cold snap because they needed to keep the brood nest warm.  This caused the bees to starve to death.  What a shame!  The easiest indicator of starvation is that a large portion of bees were found dead deep in the cells head first, but not near the honey, they were near the brood nest.

On a warm day prior to the cold snap I should have moved the end frames (they had most of the honey) to positions immediately on either side of the small brood nest (there were only two frames with brood).  That way the bees would have had honey adjacent to the brood nest for use during the cold snap.