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    Rodent damage

    I’m sorry to hear these didn’t work for you. I spent years getting frustrated with mechanical traps, which the light footed mice often strip of bait without triggering, and periodically, with great regret, resorting to poison. I’ve found the electronic traps work incredibly well. So effective...
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    Rodent damage

    The electronic (battery powered) traps are genuinely excellent. I cannot recommend highly enough. Clean, more humane than other methods, and no risk to other wildlife. And very efficient.
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    A couple of questions from my first proper end of season extraction.

    After filtering, I put the my sticky filters, complete with wax and honey residues, back on top of the hive in an empty box above a crown board. By morning the filters are clean and dry and instead of sticky capping a you have beautiful dry flakes of wax ready for storage of melting. You do need...
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