Yellow jackets duration.
Carpet strips bee hive skunk.
How many bees does he actually eat.
In this video i show you up close how a skunk approaches a beehive at night and how he eats the honey bees.
This helps keep skunks from scratching the hive with their hands to draw out bees from the safety of the box.
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.
One good preventive measure is to place carpet tack strips you.
Many of us have bear fences that usually keep out skunks and opossums.
The author of the video is not concerned of this loss of bees.
Skunk at the bee hive.
If you don t have a bear fence carpet tack strips attached to a board located at.
That could be a compounding problem over the course of several days or weeks but as long as we ve.
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.
I do think a skunk can depopulate a hive with time and the hives population will suffer.
Skunks are doing serious damage to my honey bee colonies this winter.
I ve posted about critters eating my bees a couple times in the past.
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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.
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They seem to be targeting a handful of hives and i m worried those bullied colonies won t make it to spring.
During those times the frequency was more sporadic and the damage was less severe.
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.
But for me i would react differently.
