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Are  there badgers in America?  On a couple of occasions I have had hives  
badgered in the way you describe. The first time I was able to follow a 
trail  of frames down their trail.

Yes, we have the American badger (Taxidea taxus).   It is a _North 
American_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America)  _badger_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger) , somewhat  similar in appearance to the _European 
badger_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_badger) , found  in the western and 
central _United States_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) .
 
 
My crew told me someone was stealing hives on the Idaho National  
Engineering Site, which seemed really odd, since you have to have security  clearance 
to get to the area where we had the hives.
 
I went to look, counted, and found they were correct; several hives were  
missing.
 
I looked around, walked out into the sagebrush.  I stubbed my toe on  
something.  Looked down, and found the corner of a hive-body sticking  up.  The 
animal was carrying  off the nucs and burying them.
 
Jerry

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