The nectar on your hummingbird feeder is the best alternative food that bees and wasps can find while waiting for spring flowers.

Keeping honey bees away from hummingbird feeders. Look for leaks and patch them up. In fall 2 parts sugar to 1 part water. Hang disposable yellow jacket traps.

Some beekeepers use a 2:1 mix. There are many ways to keep bees away from nectar feeders, but the first thing birders need to realize is that it is impossible to remove 100 percent of the insects attracted to. To get the honey bees to leave the area, you are also going to have to punish the birds for a few days.

Also sometimes referred to as bee guards, you can buy or make your own for your feeders. Honey bees are quite partial to sugar, especially sucrose. Keep the tape out of contact with the nectar to prevent contamination.

Use a red colored hummingbird feeder. Bee sugar water comes in an equal ratio of water and sugar. Bee guards are covers that go over the port of your hummingbird feeders.

If the bees take to. Use a lighter balance of up to 1:5 sugar to water for your. A super sweet mix of half water and half sugar will draw bees and wasps away from the hummingbird feeder.

Here’s an interesting fact, honeybees can’t see the color red at all. Clean feeders of residue regularly. Saucer feeders are popular with birders because they are great at keeping insects.