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Posted: July 23 2009 at 12:49pm | IP Logged Quote CandaceC
Does anyone have any suggestions?? Last year we had ants on our feeders...this year it is bees!! Uggg...today a hummingbird has tried multiple times to come to the feeder but there are too many bees and they kind of scare him/her away...



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Posted: July 23 2009 at 12:55pm | IP Logged Quote Mackfam
You can move the hummingbird feeder a few feet away. The bees/ants/wasps won't follow but the hummingbirds will. I know this sounds strange, but it really works. We put up several hooks on our front porch because we occasionally have to move the feeder because of unwelcome guests.

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Posted: July 23 2009 at 2:02pm | IP Logged Quote CandaceC
brilliant! I'll try it!

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Posted: July 23 2009 at 7:21pm | IP Logged Quote pmeilaen
You could also try putting Vaseline around the openings where the hummingbirds drink. It makes the surface slippery so that bees and ants can't get to the sugar water, but hummingbirds still can.

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