Hive debris help

[Millet]

Kitta never said anything about bits of bees, she just mentioned to CC that by making the holes bigger there was a risk of mice being able to get in, which of course there is.

I thought this thread was about bits of bees on the inspection tray..

 

[Hivemaker.]

I thought this thread was about bits of bees on the inspection tray..

You also though it might be about Aliens.

 

[Millet]

You also though it might be about Aliens.

This is true..

 

[The Poot in Somerset]

Amazing broad range of opinions as ever - from dead bees being dismembered to get them out of the hive, to aliens!
Watched them today as the mild weather allowed a lot of flying and witnessed the dead being removed. QED?
Is it carniolans that have red bodies, green heads with flashing antennas?

 

[johnnie1uk]

"Is it carniolans that have red bodies, green heads with flashing antennas?"

No, they are Rudolphiolans!

 

[Curly green fingers]

Funny. Plenty of Christmas spirit already I love it.

 

[For want of a better word]

Funny. Plenty of Christmas spirit already I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGLGJV01C0Q&index=14&list=RDOk5rOO2v2dU

Nadelik Lowen

 

[SteveG]

perfect

 

[Curly green fingers]

That's it I'm digging a pool for a hippo!

 

[Poly Hive]

Do you really want the most dangerous mammal on the planet in your back garden? Me I'll just stick to bees.

PH

 

[Cuckmere couple]

yes....ive tried to mitigate for that with how ive attached to the entrance

essentially, the widest part of the whole is now coterminous with the entrance floorin the hope they can get bodies out but mice cant get in

 

[Madge]

yes....ive tried to mitigate for that with how ive attached to the entrance



essentially, the widest part of the whole is now coterminous with the entrance floorin the hope they can get bodies out but mice cant get in

Yes, we understood that.

What are the dimensions of your new archway entrances - width and height? That’s the crucial part.

 

[Eyeman]

At frist sight some worrying debris on left side of insert board with larger wax particles. Quick internal inspection revealed no mouse/shrew. Turned out to be slug/worm droppings.

 

[Curly green fingers]

Do you really want the most dangerous mammal on the planet in your back garden? Me I'll just stick to bees.

PH

Could be quite novel pH...at least there would be only one. Most of mine seem to be still broading my Queens of cause,
Some cold weather wouldn't go amiss.

 

[Millet]

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At frist sight some worrying debris on left side of insert board with larger wax particles. Quick internal inspection revealed no mouse/shrew. Turned out to be slug/worm droppings.

Looks like mice dropping to me..if you have a gap at the back of the inspection tray mice will be able to scrounge about under the mesh floor..worm and slug poop is different...the nearest i can think of other than mice is earwigs with that shape droppings.

 

[Eyeman]

Looks like mice dropping to me..if you have a gap at the back of the inspection tray mice will be able to scrounge about under the mesh floor..worm and slug poop is different...the nearest i can think of other than mice is earwigs with that shape droppings.

Yes a few mouse dropping scattered around. What concerned me was the larger pieces of wax/capping in that left hand side of the tray.

 

[Millet]

Not sure of the gap between your mesh floor and tray.. all i can think of is the mice are having to push themselves around in the tight gap and in the process forming larger piles of wax a bit like a minnie snow plough effect..

 

[madasafish]

Do you really want the most dangerous mammal on the planet in your back garden? Me I'll just stick to bees.

PH

You mean people shirley?


People kill more people than hippos..

"The hippopotamus is often cited as the most dangerous large animal in the world, killing an estimated 500 people a year in Africa."
https://tinyurl.com/y9e36peq

"More than 50,000 children in Yemen died from starvation during 2017. In October 2018, the United Nations warned that 13 million people face starvation in what could be "the worst famine in the world in 100 years." "

https://tinyurl.com/yctqkr69