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. Eric Abell email: [log in to unmask] Gibbons, AB, T0A 1N0 Canada (403) 998 3143 >