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Ski, that looks and sounds almost identical to my latest deadout--number 3 of 20. I have 1 more very weak hive and am somewhat hopeful for the rest.

I added a box over the shim and mountain camp sugar, took the 2 supers of stores from the dead out and spread the frames out over a few other hives that were not light but lighter then the others. I scored the capped honey so maybe they will empty the frames.

Sorry to hear that Ski.....this is a great pic of what it looks like when a hive starves. Was it the diminished size that kept them from moving to a new area for food?

"Was it the diminished size that kept them from moving to a new area for food?"

Size relative to the temperature.
That is the theory, but why was the cluster so small?
Mite treatment not effective enough, that is my guess.

Any other ideas?

It looks like 3 small clusters on 3 different frames.....right?

I am not a cluster expert.
The cluster on all three frames were in basically the same position on the frames. Having bees on both sides it would form, what I would call a typical cluster.