Skunks are doing serious damage to my honey bee colonies this winter.
Carpet strips bee hive skunk.
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.
One good preventive measure is to place carpet tack strips you.
The author of the video is not concerned of this loss of bees.
Yellow jackets duration.
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.
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.
This helps keep skunks from scratching the hive with their hands to draw out bees from the safety of the box.
In this video i show you up close how a skunk approaches a beehive at night and how he eats the honey bees.
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.
I do think a skunk can depopulate a hive with time and the hives population will suffer.
A common solution is to run a strip of carpet tack in front of the entrance.
I ve posted about critters eating my bees a couple times in the past.
February 18 2018 eric miller.
If you don t have a bear fence carpet tack strips attached to a board located at.
Skunk at the bee hive.
While it won t stop reckless bear destruction using carpeting tackboards on the base of the hives even above mouse guards can be an effective deterrent for other pests.
Saving a bee hive from starvation s4e5 duration.
To stop this raise the hive up so the skunk can t reach it or put a carpet tack strip on the edge of the landing board with the tacks facing forward towards the entrance of the hive.
How many bees does he actually eat.
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Many of us have bear fences that usually keep out skunks and opossums.
That could be a compounding problem over the course of several days or weeks but as long as we ve.
