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allen dick <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:58:28 -0700
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> I've even heard of
> mice chewing wider the small opening in the wooden entrance reducers and
> still getting in

In my experience, they are often trying to get OUT, after being locked in by
a beekeeper coming along and adding a reucer when they are already inside.
That fact is a good reason to put the reducers on early, while the bees are
still occupying the whole hive and chasing away the mice.

allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com

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