Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: BEE'S AROUND MY HUMMER FEEDER, 1 by Melissande

Melissande wrote:
here's my feeder at a lull in the activity. Usually there's twice tht and the same number stacked up and waiting for a runway.

The hummers don't seem too intimidated. I was trying to simply be tolerant and let them do what they need to do, until I nearly drank a bee upending a bottle of rootbeer. Poured out half the bottle out on the ground trying to rescue the silly little thing! Took her forever to get over it. And it was DIET! Imagine how many I'd have swallowed if it'd been 'the real thing'! So that's when I decided to do something about it.

I wrote a beekeeping list and asked what might be best to do and they were the ones recommended taking the feeders in for a few days.

Things seem to have settled down now. They're still ganging my birdbath, though. I guess they're really thirsty.

Melis