From: "Lucinda Sewell" <lucindajohn@sewellhome.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:16:33 +0100
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Snakes

Hi all,

Saw a (glimpse of) grass snake exiting a hive yesterday! Leaving fast
too...There's non chemical control for you! I have a really strange one. One
of my colonies with an emerged queen cell has a comb with a patch the size
of my hand missing. Around the periphery of the missing bit the cells are
chewed down. The faces of comb each side of the missing part are also chewed
down to the midrib, as if sanded or wire brushed. No sign of rodents, and
it's not the hive that had a grass snake either.

Any ideas?

Many thanks
John Sewell