Hi Garth: Interesting that you have slugs to enter your hives. I had a hive that was extremely aggressive one day. Yes, it had slugs in it. Someone had been target practicing and peppered the front of the hive with 22 cal. slugs. Just a little humor for your smart cat. Bob Neely Goose Creek, SC USA On Tue, 20 May 1997 09:54:33 GMT+0200 Garth <[log in to unmask]> writes: >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. >