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 water.

How to keep bees away from my hummingbird feeder. Look for leaks and patch them up a bright green hummingbird. How do you prevent bees from visiting your hummingbird feeder? Wipe the feeder with a damp cloth at least once a day, and you can keep bees away from hummingbird feeders.

Bee guards or mesh are placed around the ports on the hummingbird feeder, which allows the birds to get to the food but keeps the bees away. They keep the bees out. Fermented nectar spoils, posing a danger to feeding hummingbirds.

One way is to make sure that the oriole feeder is not in an area where bees typically gather, such as near a. Cutting up some cucumber peels into small pieces and placing and them on top of your hummingbird feeder may help to deter both bees and wasps. Start by locating the decoy feeder near the hummingbird feeder, and gradually.

Once the bees are attracted to the bowl, move the bowl to a sunny spot a little farther away from the feeder. Always place a good medium size rock or pebble in the middle. Position a bowl in a place not too far from the hummingbird feeder.

Eliminate nests look for holes in the wood of your deck (carpenter bees) look for wasp nests and spray them using long. Bees will not spend too long trying to get to. 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.

Avoid feeder leaks & maintain a clean feeder 2. Bee guards are covers that go over the port of your hummingbird feeders. Remember to make the sugary solution stronger than the 5:1 ratio satisfactory to hummingbirds.