On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, James E. Hoyt wrote:
 
> One of the early bits of information my mentor imparted was that skunks
> eat bees, and the way to discourage them was to raise hives such that the
> skunk's belly was exposed to attack by bees. As a result I've always
> placed my hives on old shipping pallets...never had any skunk porblems,
> though other folk I know have, and the bottom boards don't suffer from
> moisture either.
 
My pallets are all elevated above a 2x4 on edge and so the skunks
underside would be exposed.  Even so, the damage they do is severe.
 
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