Hi Alan:
I have often seen mouse damage similar to that which you have described.
This can be avoided by putting a queen excluder on a bottom board, putting
the super with the frames above that and a regular cover on that. The bees
can get in through the excluder but the mice cannot.
Best regards
Donald Aitken
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