Has anyone in the US seen rat damage to their hives?  

A friend of mine keeps several hives close to a water recharge basin that has many rats but they have never attempted go into the hives.  [Perhaps because he also keeps chickens and the rats tend to steel food from them.]

Waldemar
Long Island, NY

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