CHRS: IBMPC 2 CODEPAGE: 437 MSGID: 240:244/116 2d8c4c4d REPLY: 240:44/0 2bcc8b0f PID: FDAPX/w 1.12a UnReg(227) Bats fly late evening, early morning no later than dawn. Bees fly early morning through to mid evening. Bees generally also fly lower than Bats so there should be no conflict, I have never seen bats catch any of my bees but that proves NOTHING. I will talk to my friend the Batman, we can checck the droppings no doubt. I can tell you about flycatchers, I had ten hives alongside oil seed rape (Brassica napus) Canola) I observed a flycatcher pop out the hedge and pick off a bee, it picked twenty more until it either missed one or built up too much alarm pheromene, 21,2 & 3 had a go at a very surprised flycatcher, it ducked and dived and soared as it flew away, as it became smaller in the distance the air became blacker with bees chasing it, I have never seen this before or since. Another thing I notice, about ten to twenty yards out from some hives I threw a football up in the air for the dog to catch, at eight to ten foot in the air it was divebombed by bees, likewise with a tennis ball, was this reaction the smell of the dog's saliva on the ball or the bees thinking they were being attacked. Greetings from the garden of England [log in to unmask] --- * Origin: Kent Beekeeper Beenet Point (240:244/116)