Bees will not spend too long trying to get to.

How do you keep bees away from your hummingbird feeder. Replace the sugar water every few days. If step #1 fails, we will place a yellow dish (bees seem to be attracted to yellow) with 2 parts water to 1 part sugar in the same vicinity near the feeder on a ladder. Once you see honey bees gathering at the feeder in number, you will need.

If you hope to keep bees away from hummingbird feeders but still want them around for your flowers or garden, offer the bees a substitute feeder with a sweeter sugar. Use a lighter balance of up to 1:5 sugar to water for your. Place the distracting feeder in full sun, which bees prefer more than.

While bees are pollinators like hummingbirds, bees are unwanted guests at. Start by locating the decoy feeder near the hummingbird feeder, and gradually move it 5 to 6 feet away. Bees can be guided to a bowl filled with one to two parts sugar and one part water mix.

The nectar on your hummingbird feeder is the best alternative food that bees and wasps can find while waiting for spring flowers. Hummingbirds, on the other hand, are quite partial to red. Do honey bees scare away hummingbirds?

There is a reason you will find most hummingbird feeders are red. Look for leaks and patch them up. They keep the bees out while allowing the hummingbirds in.

To get the honey bees to leave the area, you are also going to have to punish the birds for a few days. In summer 1 part sugar to 1 part water. Unfortunately, these also attract bees and other insects.