Hi All Just saw the ppost about the ants and the guard bees behaviour to it, with the buzzing and pointing the abdomen. I have observed a few interesting things trying to get into bee hives. Ants get in at night it seems. By day I have watched my guards buzz the ants away with their wings. Bigger ants are actuallyy lifted away and on one or two occarions I have seen two bees actually grab an ant and pull it apart. I don't know whether that was the plan or whether they both just wanted the pleasure of carrying the thing away. A while back I read abouut slugs in hives. Most of my beehives have slugs in them. The slugs go in in the vening and spend the night on the top board, where it is nice and moist and wwarm. I have also come accross snails in the beehive on a few occaions. The slugs and snails seem to move too slowwlyy to be noticed. Keep well Garth --- Garth Cambray "Opinions expressed in this post may be those 15 Park Road of Pritz, my cat, who knows a lot about Grahamstown catfood." 6140 *[log in to unmask]* South Africa Phone 27-0461-311663 In general, generalisations are bad. But don't worry BEEEEEE happy.