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My bees love this. They have been consuming at least a quart per day. I use a regular mouth quart jar and adjust it over the opening. So easy.

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.

This seemed to work well until my freakin’ dogs knocked it into my pond. I had JUST filled it with sugar-water. Le sigh. All that being said, I purchased this when I first became a beekeeper; I’ve learned a lot about feeding since then, such as open feeding inviting robber bees to your property and closer to your hive. It also invites other beekeepers’ bees to your property for sugar-water, which is a big no-no in the beekeeping community since syrup causes bees to make “funny honey,” and different beeks choose to feed their bees — or not — at different times of the year. I ultimately decided to use an internal frame feeder in my hive. BUT, that doesn’t speak to the quality of this particular product. In the short time I used it, it seemed durable. But I didn’t see bees on it until it was in the bottom of the pond and the jar (which didn’t experience a similar fate) was wide open for bees to fly in and enjoy the syrup.

Summer 2024: Bought this to draw the bees away from the hummingbird feeders. It worked! Unfortunately the raccoons liked it too. I found 3 of the pieces in the yard, and will search for the gray ring next to the woods when the weeds die back this fall.

There are no threads to lock a quart jar of syprup onto the feeder and three tiny feet on the bottom. This design makes this highly likely you will not be able to turn it over without spilling all of the syrup, nor can you hang it in a tree, nor put it on a post because of the feet, instead of a flat bottom that will set on a flat post. If any of the feet sets between slats also.. there goes the syrup.

The media could not be loaded. We got our nuke very late in the season. The colony could had not enough time to get very strong when cold weather arrive and there were no more nectar. Our challenge now is the give this small colony a chance to hopefully survive in spite all the odds. This feeder that works with a 1/4 gallon mason jar helps feed the bees with less disturbance as the reservoir is larger than what we could find for this top bar hive until now. This feeder base has a very clever design to avoid the drowning of the bees. It is very stable too. Thanks to these smart Ukrainian people. We wish for them what all people on earth deserve which is peace.

The floating plate top feeder in this small form factor seems like a great idea. In practice the floating plate didn't give enough exposure for bees to take up sugar water. I watched over a couple days and at most caught 3 bees trying to get at the syrup (1 to 1 no oils). With some revisions in the floating platform and a larger footprint I think this could be workable. If you have a 3d printer I would try designing a new plate.Can not recommend at this time. It does work as a good any trap though!

I love these for feeding my bees. They clean up easy and the bees can all get around it and feed. No worry about them drowning.