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)

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

I used it as a base for feeding bees.

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 am not a bee person. This feeder is very simple and effective - the bees ( Honey, Bumble, hornets & wasps ) like it. I got these colorful feeders to take some of the bee traffic from my hummingbird feeders - and they seem to help. I have 14 hummingbird feeders and 5 of these bee feeders. This is my peak month for both the birds and the bees - 5 gallons/day for the hummers and 8 quarts for the bees - I never realized the bees drank so much. I followed the instructions ( simple ) and have had no drowned bees.

In their picture, you can see the small slice that looks like a small pie piece out of the yellow plastic area right? Well, they provide some sort of screen to put on top of that, that supposedly prevents the bees from crawling inside once you have the mason jar on top with the sugar water in it. Firstly, that screen started to fall apart after only a few days of use. Sad. Secondly, the bees figured out how to squeeze themselves between the screen and the mason jar on day 3. The honey bees were drinking the mason jar of sugar water so fast I had to replace it once every 4 hours or so, on day one I had to refill it three times. On days one and two I really thought I was helping out the bees as we did not have a lot of flowers for them yet in early spring. On day three I filled the mason jar up and put it on my driveway (we live in the country, no one uses our driveway lol) and 4 hours later, to my horror, I went outside to find a total of 22 honey bees dead inside the mason jar despite the fact that I had used the provided screen. There was even two of them still stuck in between the screen and the mason jar, where the 'slice' is located. That is some stupid engineering right there. I'm not sure what it is with honey bees wanting to commit suicide when they eat, but this feeder will definitely help them out with that. Avoid.