{"id":683,"date":"2014-12-27T23:44:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T04:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rex.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/?p=683"},"modified":"2014-12-27T23:44:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T04:44:38","slug":"mouse-guards-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Mouse Guards Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks back, I inspected the hives, and in one of the empty nucs, found a mouse nest &#8211; with a single mouse living within.\u00a0 I had forgotten about installing mouse-guards when I was reducing the hive entrances and adding covers under the screened bottom boards.<\/p>\n<p>I did a quick check in the hives before installing the mesh.\u00a0 It is 1\/4&#8243; hardware cloth &#8211; simply bent to a 90 deg. angle, and stapled across the entrance.\u00a0 Not rocket science &#8211; just a block to keep the field mice from using the hives for shelter, warmth, and food.<\/p>\n<p>Click the pictures for a close-up view.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_681\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pic61.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-681\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pic61-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mouse guards - Installed\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mouse guards &#8211; Installed<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_682\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pic11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-682\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pic11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mouse Guard Installation\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mouse Guard Installation<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks back, I inspected the hives, and in one of the empty nucs, found a mouse nest &#8211; with a single mouse living within. I had forgotten about installing mouse-guards when I was reducing the hive entrances and adding covers under the screened bottom boards.<\/p>\n<p>I did a quick check in the hives before [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96,98,15],"tags":[149,244,261,320,321,363],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bee-yard","category-beekeeping","category-harmony-hollow-apiaries","tag-block","tag-guard","tag-honeybee","tag-mouse","tag-mouse-guard","tag-rex-smith","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ze45-b1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}