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Beekeeping => Pests and Diseases => Topic started by: Les on September 08, 2015, 03:25:20 pm

Title: Look what I found!
Post by: Les on September 08, 2015, 03:25:20 pm

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Preparing to evaporate some oxalic acid, I knew I had to cover my screened bottom boards.  Pulled off my bottom deep and look what had built herself a nice home.!!  When I brush my cats out in the yard, I just toss the fur into the woods for the critters to use for their nests.  Well, I guess Momma mouse did just that because the entire nest was made from my cats fur.  The mice are now part of the sewer system!

When I started beekeeping this Spring, I wanted to try a wood hive and a polystyrene.  What I don't like about the poly is the bottom screened board design.  It has ventilation holes??  on the very bottom giving access to anything that wants to crawl in there.  I don't anticipate the boxes will last as long either, find them to be brittle.

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Title: Re: Look what I found!
Post by: Jen on September 08, 2015, 04:24:24 pm

Ha! "The mice are now part of the sewer system!"

Good call. Let's leave the cute little mice to Disney :D

Title: Re: Look what I found!
Post by: apisbees on September 09, 2015, 08:41:37 am

Les you should have recycled and let them become part of the cats. Free cat food!

Title: Re: Look what I found!
Post by: Les on September 09, 2015, 01:57:11 pm

Apis, my nephew has always said they should sell mouse flavored cat food 😁

Title: Re: Look what I found!
Post by: apisbees on September 09, 2015, 02:42:27 pm

See you disappointed your nephew also.

Title: Re: Look what I found!
Post by: riverbee on September 09, 2015, 06:18:00 pm

my cats were indoor cats, they were fed well  :D.........outdoor cats catch the buggers and dine on them.......but anyway, the indoor cats loved to chase em around, catch em, and when they finally died of a heart attack or whatever, they still threw them up in the air to get them to move so they could chase them again....... :D

and once in awhile they would bring them to my feet.........or face, depending on the time of day.......... :D

i had one great hunter that would bolt out the screen door and catch the chipmunks running by........ :D

good 'catch' by you les, they make a mess of a hive in short order.

Title: Re: Look what I found!
Post by: neillsayers on September 10, 2015, 12:36:38 pm

We have a LOT of cats! All the toms are lazy, shiftless purr machines but the girls are death on rodents.

Title: Re: Look what I found!
Post by: riverbee on September 10, 2015, 11:13:49 pm

"We have a LOT of cats! All the toms are lazy, shiftless purr machines but the girls are death on rodents."

LOL neill! the toms have no one to feed but themselves, not a litter like the females........... sounds like a beehive right?  all the drones are lazy, shiftless, but those girls are death on anything that enters!...................... ;D......... :D