>What about mice etc and especially raccoons, my biggest beeyard pest that
take advantage of my slightest goof.

Out in the areas where beekeepers feed substitute mice and rats are not a
problem.  We don't have raccoons.  Other native fauna do not seem to be a
problem.

Trevor Weatherhead
Australia

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