Interestingly, shrews are not actually rodents, even though they look
similar. Instead, they are in the order Eulipotyphla, which consists of
insectivorous mammals, such as hedgehogs.

*Although its external appearance is generally that of a long-nosed mouse,
a shrew is not a rodent <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent>, as mice
are. It is, in fact, a much closer relative of hedgehogs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehogs> and moles...*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrew   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrew>
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2014/fisher_cody/classification.htm

I've had a dance with shrews in my apiary.  I started to notice obvious
evidence of a pest:  headless, cut in half bees, with leg and wing parts,
strewn on the bottom board, and around the hive - sometimes in a neat
pile.  Within colonies, shrews will leave comb chunks, and decapitated bees.

With a lot of luck, the apiary will NOT be in the range of the pygmy shrew
- or that beekeeper has a real challenge ahead.

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