What do you do when it rains for the oil?
It's such a slimy mess in the pan, that your okay for awhile. If the "lack of oil" in the pan gets too bad I just fill a lil more. With my cars, cycles, lawn mower and other engines....I have no lack of used oil to replenish!! I learned two things from this painful incident.
A. Create an oil barrier. ( I knew this but didnt do it)
B. Have an access hole in my inner cover so bees can patroll that space above too instead of giving the ants a "Bee Free" area. (I had a hole but it was screened. I hadnt put a non-screened hole for bees cuz it was a nuc. My large hives have the hole, I just didnt do it for the nucs. Live and learn!)
I'm going to try the ant traps mentioned here but this is in the wild country of Central Florida in the woods and by a river. doubt my little traps are going to make much diffrence in the ant population.
NEXT on my list------- I'm going on an all out battle with SHB!!!! They are really really bad!