What have you had under your roof?

[Newbeeneil]

I've had mice, earwigs, woodlice and ants but was surprised to see a couple of squatters under the roof of one of my hives!

 

[oxnatbees]

Cool!

Warre hives have a peaked sunshield roof with a gap below, people have occasionally found bird nests and roosting bats there.

 

[Jimmy]

I've had one apiary which for a couple of winters seemed to be a ladybird sanctuary. Infested from late October, all gone by early April.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Not under the roof but under the OMF

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[user 819]

One spring I lifted a roof off to find a queen hornet.

 

[pargyle]

Nothing as exotic as the above....

Slugs... mainly leopard slugs that are really good garden hunters... I don't like them much but they don't seem to do any harm and they are not in the hive and don't eat my plants. I assume they are attracted to the warmth... and probably feed off whatever feeds off the debris under the hive .... they look well fed !

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Mice, slugs, earwigs (so called because their hind wings when opened resembled ears, wig being old english for insect),woodlice, ants, moths, queen wasps............................................

 

[gmonag]

Earwig wings...

 

[LeaBees]

Earwig wings...

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Cool! Seen many an earwig scuttling about, but till now didn't even know they had wings... Every day is a school day!

 

[Moobee]

Nothing as exotic as the above....

Slugs... mainly leopard slugs that are really good garden hunters... I don't like them much but they don't seem to do any harm and they are not in the hive and don't eat my plants. I assume they are attracted to the warmth... and probably feed off whatever feeds off the debris under the hive .... they look well fed !

Just watched Gardeners’ World - leopard slugs only eat decaying vegetation and are very territorial apparently, killing other slugs that dare to come near!

 

[Nannysbees]

Earwig wings...

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Never seen them with wings!!

 

[madasafish]

Big spiders with triangular shaped bodies.

 

[rolande]

Often find lizards under the roofs at certain apiaries, I posted a short video of one on another thread yesterday.

Also know for sure that we have had at least one lizard *in* a hive.

 

[Anthony Appleyard]

... earwigs (so called because their hind wings when opened resembled ears, wig being old english for insect) ...

Or because when in the old days people in peasant huts slept on straw on the floor, sometimes earwigs crept into their ears.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Or because when in the old days people in peasant huts slept on straw on the floor, sometimes earwigs crept into their ears.

no

 

[Newbeeneil]

Found some more squatters yesterday .

 

[Swn58]

Last year at the farm I had a few mice causing trouble. This year I think that they spread the word, as I have had all manner of problems! They seem to like nibbling the poly hives, if they are too low to the ground. I also had a couple of empty, nucs almost destroyed along with a Paradise floor and an Abelo crown-board that had fallen off a bench. There has also been a wax moth problem, which I have never experienced before.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Found some more squatters yesterday .View attachment 29241

Lady bird envyView attachment IMG_20211122_140954.jpg

 

[Mint Bee]

found this little one in an empty bait hive during the summer a few years ago. I've seen its larger relatives at approaching a meter in length and more than once have them slither next to and / or over my boots during a hive inspection

 

[Erichalfbee]

Found some more squatters yesterday .View attachment 29241

An impressive bunch of invasive species