Over Labor Day weekend, my Minnesota Hygienic honey bees paid my hummingbird feeders on my deck a visit.
There were only a few at first; it's been a very hot summer in Missouri this year, and I remember reading honey bees can get bored if they don't find pollen to carry back to the hives.
Since very little is blooming this time of year, I figured my honey bees were looking for something to do.
Not wanting my bees to leave - there are always long paragraphs in bee books on why honey bees swarm and leave a hive - I decided to get a closer look at how they were planning to raid the hummingbird feeders.
If I were only half an inch long and found a big red hummingbird feeder full of delicious yummy sugar water, I think I would try to get to it, too, wouldn't you?
In the past, I've given the concept of a bee guard on a bird feeder maybe half a thought.
As I watched these little honey bees trying to get to the honey water, I wondered who came up with the idea of marketing these hummingbird feeders as bee proof.
Their final solution cracked me up!
Charlotte
Gardening to Distraction on a MO Hill
There were only a few at first; it's been a very hot summer in Missouri this year, and I remember reading honey bees can get bored if they don't find pollen to carry back to the hives.
Since very little is blooming this time of year, I figured my honey bees were looking for something to do.
Not wanting my bees to leave - there are always long paragraphs in bee books on why honey bees swarm and leave a hive - I decided to get a closer look at how they were planning to raid the hummingbird feeders.
If I were only half an inch long and found a big red hummingbird feeder full of delicious yummy sugar water, I think I would try to get to it, too, wouldn't you?
In the past, I've given the concept of a bee guard on a bird feeder maybe half a thought.
As I watched these little honey bees trying to get to the honey water, I wondered who came up with the idea of marketing these hummingbird feeders as bee proof.
Their final solution cracked me up!
Charlotte
Gardening to Distraction on a MO Hill
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