regarding Ants:
 
I use wooden palates or Cement blocks for hive stands. On top I put 4 pie
dishes with a 2X4 block of wood surrounded by barrier of used motor oil.
Each block of wood is covered with an inverted pie dish  to prevent bees
from drowing in the oil. Picture two pie dishes sandwiching a block of
wood.  On top of this I put 4X4s to set the hives on.
 
Ant problem solved unless a grass stalk leans up against the 4X4 creating a
ramp for the ants to march into the hives.
 
Someone needs to market a quick and easy hive stand that is ant proof.  Any
inventors out there?
 
How do the migratory beekeepers keep ants from invading hives if they are
just on the pallets?
 
Any other ideas for ANT PROOF hive stands??
 
Paul Cronshaw DC
Cyberchiro and Hobbyist beekeeper
Santa Barbara  CA USA
 
> On Sun, 11 May 1997 08:11:55 -0600 Eric Abell <[log in to unmask]>
> writes:
> >At 02:15 AM 09/05/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >>I am using a division board feeder and have noticed a bunch of ants
> >gathering on top of my inner cover.  Any suggestions on how to prevent
> this?
> >>
> >>Jim Meehan