Carpet Strips Bee Hive Skunk

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Carpet strips bee hive skunk.

Greg muelrath 26 400 views. Many of us have bear fences that usually keep out skunks and opossums. If you don t have a bear fence carpet tack strips attached to a board located at. A common solution is to run a strip of carpet tack in front of the entrance.

In this video i show you up close how a skunk approaches a beehive at night and how he eats the honey bees. Skunks are doing serious damage to my honey bee colonies this winter. Yes they do they come out at night and scratch the front of the hive and eat the bees as they come out to investigate they will come back every night till the hive is almost empty. Skunk at the bee hive.

This helps keep skunks from scratching the hive with their hands to draw out bees from the safety of the box. I ve posted about critters eating my bees a couple times in the past. The author of the video is not concerned of this loss of bees. It may keep raccoons and especially skunks from doing much more than scratching a bit before they wander off and hopefully before the bees get agitated and vulnerable.

But for me i would react differently. I do think a skunk can depopulate a hive with time and the hives population will suffer. One good preventive measure is to place carpet tack strips you. The skunk is renowned for scratching around the hive entrance swatting the bees that come out to see what all the fuss is about and then contentedly munching on them in their dazed and injured.

That could be a compounding problem over the course of several days or weeks but as long as we ve. These are usually from skunks trying to get the bees to come out of the hive in order to defend it thus becoming the skunk s midnight snack. Jerome bee farm homestead recommended for you. They seem to be targeting a handful of hives and i m worried those bullied colonies won t make it to spring.

Yellow jackets duration. How many bees does he actually eat. During those times the frequency was more sporadic and the damage was less severe.