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[Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>]

Skunks also love yellow jackets.  Gotta take the good with the bad.  I think 
skunks probably do a lot more good than harm, even if they do eat bees.

Michael Dossett
Corvallis, Oregon
www.Mdossettphoto.com
phainopepla@yahoo.com


--- On Mon, 6/30/08, Mark & Helen Angermayer <hangermayer@isp.com> wrote:

> From: Mark & Helen Angermayer <hangermayer@isp.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Skumk Amore
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 9:12 PM
> There's a lot'a love out there, and I hate to be the
> one who wears the black hat, but I read skunks like to eat
> honey bees.  This may be a concern for you Jim, since you
> keep bees.  Apparently they scratch the hive at night,
> getting a few bees to come out, then snap them up. 
> They've done autopsies on skunks and found several bee
> stings in their throats that don't seem to deter the
> skunks.  The skunks don't kill the hive, just keep it
> agitated.  It might be an extra stress that makes it harder
> for the hive to thrive. 
> 
> Mark
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