From: "huestis" <buzzybee@capital.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:35:16 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Bee-eating snakes

Hi Robert,

They are common grass snakes. Don't know scientific name. They are eating bees(maybe dead ones too). They enter hives at enterance on bottom board. Hives are on individual stands of treated lumber in the shape of a square. Bottom boards are 4-5 inches off ground.

Not sure how they impact population of bees. They are a pain for me as I
try not to step on them. They don't move to far away as I work.

Clay