Well, Hello all!
Cullz, like I say, they are gonners. No eggs, No brood, No queen, No storing of food. Just a bunch of sad suicidal bees. I have no other hive, they absconded from a Langstroth that had SHB. Think "Rotting Corpse." I had noticed the robbers hanging around during the middle of the day when they were in their decomposing hive bodies, but didn't think (I am actually fairly new to all this, though my statements seem to contradict.) I set them up with a robber screen, too late.
Tecumseh, Thank you for the bee info. I could only imagine they would carry the dead ones out by sheer muscle (as they haven't evolved an engineer class yet.) but looking at the bottom of this hive and seeing Bumblebees, Wax moths, SHB, and sundry bodies after a months time made me wonder. The robbing has stopped, the robbers come and go without fighting if I take the screen off.
As for the old Bee Tree, It was in Ocala Florida in April 1982. The cavity was about 2 feet off the ground, and the entrance was covered with a gray taffy-like substance that covered everything except a small hole. I peeled that away trying to move the bees into a hive I built with, I swear, scrap lumber, railroad spikes, and a "buck" saw. I got fairly proficient at the hive building ("The bees will fill all the cracks with Propolis...") but not the beekeeping. I finally covered their hole with one of the boxes, stuffed rags in all the gaps, and headed further north.