In message <[log in to unmask]>, Bill
Truesdell <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Usually the aggression is caused by animals, especially skunks, visiting
>the hives at night. The next day the bees are very short tempered. It
>took me a while to add the one and two, since there was no noticeable
>evidence of the visit until, after a rain, I saw the paw prints on the
>front of the hive. I put chicken wire in front of it and problem solved.
>Bees calmed down quickly.
I wonder if it is a ferret that make the 4 end hives (in a double row
4x2) bad tempered. The owner of the garden keeps ferrets and lost one
(it ran past me several times the night it got out with its female, who
stayed) and I wonder if it keeps coming back? (A ferret is a bit like a
mink).
--
James Kilty