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Re: Prevention of rat damage to beehives
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Mike Stoops <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:58:06 -0700
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Mike Rowbottom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Does anyone have any ideas or (better) experience of controlling 
rats in Winter in an outdoors rural situation. 
    
Mike,  Use quarter inch hardware cloth to close off your entrances to the rats.  If you're finding the rats are chewing through the hives to get inside, wrap all outside surfaces of the hives with the quarter inch hardware cloth.

Mike in LA

       
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