That will teach you not to poop on my hives

[odfrank]

And don't eat my bees either! Do rats eat bees?

[RayMarler]

Nice kill there Odfrank
I dunno if they eat bees, they might, but I do know they make nasty nests in weaker hives. I bet they'd be more after the honey and pollen than the bees themselves.

[beemandan]

I bet they'd be more after the honey and pollen than the bees themselves.

That and a nice warm, dry nest in the winter.

[odfrank]

The rat had been pooping for a few months, a lot more than misc. burr comb scraps that I might have left. I don't think he got into any hives or dead outs. Maybe eating the duff under the screened pallets. It has some wax moth larvae in it. I think he might have developed a taste for dead bees, of which here were plenty.