H-B Feeder

The H-B in today’s title used to stand for Humming Bird, but for one of our feeders it now stands for Honey Bee.

We have had bees show up in the past, but they lost interest if we diluted the sugar water solution.  Instead of a one to four mixture of sugar to water, we would change to a one to six mixture and the bees would go away.

That didn’t work this time.  The bees are only visiting one of our three feeders, and only when it is in full sunlight, but they are drinking it dry.  The birds still use it, but they will hover over a spot until the bees move out of the way, then drink without landing.

You might not think that a bee would drink much, but today this feeder is empty while the other two are half full.