ZAVHOZ Bees Feeding Bowl Bee Feeder Hive Water Drinker Sugar Syrup Drinking Dispenser Tool Plastic Mesh Dish Beehive Watering Station Apiary Accessory Beekeeping Honey Production (Yellow)

Great if the bees are hungry

Started with about 5 bees. Now it is covered. They Bees love it.

There is no overflow when sun heats the syrup. There is no spillage on the ground attracting ants, and none inside the hive making the floor wet and sticky! The red screen floats atop the syrup, giving bees a safe landing surface to feed from the wells in it. A piece of aluminum tape does not control the syrup level. It prevents a surge of syrup from covering the top of the red screen when placing the jar and feeder right side up. The jar of syrup gets the feeder placed atop, upside down, and then the whole setup gets turned over together. If some drops get on the red screen the bees will eat it off of it. If using unusually thick, dense syrup (2/1 sugar/water) the screen just might sink and stay sunk beneath the syrup if spillage covers the top of it, requiring removal of a full syrup jar and cleaning the screen off, and a mess in the hands. The aluminum tape slows down the rush of syrup when turned right side up, preventing that problem. If the assembly is turned over carefully, the aluminum tape is unneeded. To clean the feeder take the jar off, and the two polypropylene pieces can fall apart in the hands. There are no stuck threads and no jar lid to deal with. Nothing to unsnap or unfasten. Swish it in water and reuse it. I put mine in a shallow tray of water to make an ant moat around it and also offer water at the same time. It's right next to the hive and the bees fly to it. Best of all, if using Fumidil-b against colony collapse disorder from nosema cerenae, which is an expensive and carcinogenic medication, the lack of spillage as the sun expands air inside the syrup jar saves medicine and lots of cash. That makes this feeder a must-have item. The feeder's reservoir is deep enough to hold what syrup the sun forces out, without spillover.

I used it as a base for feeding bees.

April 2023. Bees around my house were not attracted to this. They would fly around or above it, not even pausing to check it out. After a week I tried it without a jar attached, would clean it every night, and put it out again the next morning with fresh nectar. Still nothing. So, instead, I bought 2 dwarf bee balm plants, put them in separate containers, and since the first day, I have had a steady stream of at least 2 different types of bees and butterflies. I have a hummingbird feeder hanging near the plants. One hummingbird always stops to quickly check out the plants before going to the feeder. I find the plants are easier to care for, I don't have to clean jars and make nectar. I'll probably just recycle the bee feeder. ------------------------ Update September 2023. Changed my rating from 3 to 5 stars. The bee balm plants I had bought for the bees are no longer flowering for this season, so I decided to try the bee feeder again. The feeder I received has a black base, I am not sure if that wasn't bright enough to attract bees, so I placed it on the red top of an old hummingbird feeder I no longer use. Maybe that did the trick. I do not place the jar on top, just the feeder that I fill to the brim with sugar water. This is sitting on a balcony railing so too risky to use a glass jar. I am using the same sugar water solution I put in the hummingbird feeder on the other side of the deck instead of the heavier bee solution. The bees love it, full of bees all day long, even one of the hummingbirds will join the bees for a meal, but the bees now stay away from the hummingbird feeder. I bring it in each evening to wash and put it out again the next morning with fresh nectar. My balcony gets full sun all day and with the recent heat wave, and perhaps the hungry bees, I check it throughout the day and occasionally and top it off with more nectar as needed. ----------------------------------- Update, 3 days later. After 3 days on my balcony without using the bottle my balcony was swarming with bees. So, I moved it to the lower deck this morning using the bottle as others have shown, and switched to a 1:1 sugar/water solution. I put a little foil at the opening, as another reviewer recommended, to keep bees from getting stuck inside the bottle. Didn't take long for the bees to find the new location. ------------------------ Update 10/18/2023 So many bees, they are fighting each other. I just ordered another bee feeder and mason jar.

Our bees really like this product they feed very well. The only issue I find is that tape that they have across the base and where the jar meets the bees get through the tape wears down and the bees get in the jar and they die.. I have tried using the painters tape and that only worked for maybe a week so that’s not the answer. I’ve been watching them very closely. My husband took a piece of thin metal and designed it to fit over those areas of this feeder and so far everything is working well. It would be nice if the manufacturer could come up with a similar design. All in all our little honeybees get fed very well through them as long as they don’t get into that opening I would recommend anyone that has them watch it very carefully. Especially in hot and dry weather. These little girls are very hungry and thirsty so I use them both for feeding and watering these little girls. We need our bees. They are very important to humanity.