There are a few ways to keep bees away from your oriole feeder.

How do you keep honey bees away from hummingbird feeders. The nectar on your hummingbird feeder is the best alternative food that bees and wasps can find while waiting for spring flowers. Stay away from using a yellow hummingbird. Position a bowl in a place not too far from the hummingbird feeder.

While bees are pollinators like hummingbirds, bees are unwanted guests at. Unfortunately, these also attract bees and other insects. 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.

The bowl is then placed on the ground to keep the bees down low and away from the hummingbird feeders up. Honey bees are attracted to bird feeders during fall and late fall when there is nectar dearth (i.e. Look for leaks and patch them up.

They keep the bees out while allowing the hummingbirds in. Hang your feeders in the shade. Clean feeders of residue regularly.

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. The guard simply makes the feeding hole too small for the bees to get to the. One way is to make sure that the oriole feeder is not in an area where bees typically gather, such as near a.

Bees can be guided to a bowl filled with one to two parts sugar and one part water mix. Bee guards are covers that go over the port of your hummingbird feeders. Place the distracting feeder in full sun, which bees prefer more than.