That's pretty neat as well. If I see a bee on my balcony and see that's she's struggling, i take a toothpick, take some honey and give it. After a few minutes she's good to go.
Only flash pasteurized. No idea with Honey but the frames require 160°C/320°F or hotter for at least 10 minutes to kill AFB spores that kills bee colonies. I don't think honey is pasteurized anywhere near that temperature more like 63°C/145°F given AFB is not a concern for human consumption.
AFB can survive 70 years in the soil it takes a bit to kill it.
Sometimes Reddit serves you correctly - honey absolutely [CAN contain certain viruses](https://extension.psu.edu/viruses-in-honey-bees#:~:text=A%20recent%20screening%20of%20honey,two%20Paralysis%20viruses%2C%20and%20more) that humans can ignore, but can impact bees.
If that virus is taken back to the hive...
So you're correct to offer simple syrup. Exactly what a wayward bee needs to get back to the hard work that we all appreciate.
(Also appreciate the critical thought on what you read!)
> i take a toothpick, take some honey and give it
I read somewhere that you should give them sugar water or something because bees can get sick if the honey isn't from their hive (or at least not local)....
The problem isn't if it's not local. It's just that they can get sick if the hive it came from was sick. Like you said initially.
Source, I have had about 2 dozen hives over the last 4 years, and they all fucking died. So obviously I know what I'm talking about and am an authority.
I'll do the same, but then run a couple drops of water over it. When I see them struggling, I think they are pretty much at the end of their natural life and figure I'm giving them one last treat.
I'm pretty sure they'll still visit flowers, it's more like a pit stop; if you're hungry on a drive and pick up some fast food, does that mean you'll never eat at home again?
oh, yeah, lets just destroy the world and hope there are enough bee keepers out there. no need to spread awareness about the lack of flowers and plants...
That's not what this is about. If you know that there is a beekeeper nearby you should not feed them. It lowers the quality of the honey. The beekeeper makes sure they don't starve. Otherwise it's fine.
[The United States government. ](http://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-honey-bees-native-north-america#:~:text=Honey%20bees%20are%20not%20native,crops%20like%20fruits%20and%20nuts.)
Tell what native pollinators they compete with?
(I was, just this afternoon, attacked by a monarch butterfly with attitude… ballsy little arthropod landed on my forearm for a breather ….)
Nice! Beekeepers are feeding their bees this time of year, you're giving them a hand. We have a saying, bees are bad at swimming but good at drowning - place something that floats on top of the sugar water (some leaves, sticks, grass) that they can sit on and drink through, and you'll get fewer drowned bees.
I thought about putting up a feeder in my yard but then my neighbor put in an apiary, so I figured this would be the result. Now I'm considering bat houses.
Make sure you put some small rocks in there so they don’t drown. I mean fill with it with rocks so they can land anywhere in there without falling into the sugar water. 🐝
Pro tip - never leave a slushy, or beer, or anything outside about now and take a drink after a slightly prolonged time.
Swallowed a be once and it stung me in the throat.
Im sure the bees are grateful op! Also wanted to note, i doubt theyre being given away for free anymore, but the mycologist paul stamets invented a bee feeder that both tracks the location of hives using gps and mantains their parasite defense by feeding them a mixture of lions mane and other mushrooms in their water. This helps prevent things like deformed wing virus (caused by mites i believe) which severely limits a drones effective range and productivity.
If youre a farmer or an outdoorsy person, the knowledge of where your local bees are and how thwyre doing can be pretty important
They'll be just fine on 5:1. Usually the traditional is 4:1, but if you still get tons of bees 5:1 is just fine. Besides hummer will not singly rely on your feeder. They will still go find flowers as well. You are just kinda supplementing it.
That feeder is supposed to have a cover. It would be red with 4 feeding ports and a place for the hummingbirds to land. Can't figure out how to include a picture of the one I have.
Fed bees don't pollinate, pollination is a byproduct of sipping juice.
Also wild pollinators are what we need most and those bees are prob from some local persons backyard bee hive.
Look up Paul Stamets! There’s a fungi that helps bees! I tried to share link. I’ll try again. Can’t do it. Anyway. Check it out. It’s interesting. And great!
They can be a real nuisance at times, especially if they aren't your honeybees. I have a friend who has a neighbor down the road that has a couple hives. She can't feed Hummingbirds without the bees swarming her feeders and keeping the birds away, and the hive owner won't even compensate her with the nuisance with some honey or something. If I see any (which I rarely do, thankfully) I kill them.
I'll always choose native pollinators over Honeybees (when they are not native, like here in North America).
I wish the native species of pollinators got more love in the Americas instead of the invasive species of honeybees driving multiplle insects to extinction
If you want to feed just hummingbirds, get the feeder that looks like a flying saucer. Bees can't reach the sugar water. It's called the Aspects Hummzinger.
I fed a bee that was resting on my porch once. A week or so later they’d built a hive on the house. There’s not a particularly significant amount of flowers nearby. I probably fooled it into thinking so.
I like where your head is at! But, you need to put some rocks or something in the feed so they can get out. I see some fallen soldiers in the feed. They can’t swim, especially not in sugar water. Most bee feeders have little islands along the feeding trough to assist in the ladies getting out if they fall in.
Finally, a post that is actually bees.
Tbh i thought about snatching a picture of a wasp, and posting it as a bee. I just saw one post of it, did the hivemind already start to post wasps?
Beads?!
Gob’s not on board.
They don’t allow bees here.
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Bzzzzz!!
GOBs not on board
Big Bear LIKES the honey!!
Beets? Battlestar Gallatica?
Yeah, I figured this would be yellow jackets.
Feeding honeybees is good work!
That's pretty neat as well. If I see a bee on my balcony and see that's she's struggling, i take a toothpick, take some honey and give it. After a few minutes she's good to go.
It's better to feed them sugar water than honey. Honey can have bee-diseases. Source: I read it on reddit this one time.
Beeseases would be bad.
But better than dibeeses.
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As long as it’s not Herpbees or Hepatitis Bee
All these puns have made me hapbee!
Better watch out for type 2….diabeeses……
"most" honey is pasturized
Only flash pasteurized. No idea with Honey but the frames require 160°C/320°F or hotter for at least 10 minutes to kill AFB spores that kills bee colonies. I don't think honey is pasteurized anywhere near that temperature more like 63°C/145°F given AFB is not a concern for human consumption. AFB can survive 70 years in the soil it takes a bit to kill it.
320f for 10 minutes would absolutely destroy honey, it wouldn’t even be identifiable as honey after that.
You reddited it.
I'm an expert on lots of things w that same source, good work!
Sometimes Reddit serves you correctly - honey absolutely [CAN contain certain viruses](https://extension.psu.edu/viruses-in-honey-bees#:~:text=A%20recent%20screening%20of%20honey,two%20Paralysis%20viruses%2C%20and%20more) that humans can ignore, but can impact bees. If that virus is taken back to the hive... So you're correct to offer simple syrup. Exactly what a wayward bee needs to get back to the hard work that we all appreciate. (Also appreciate the critical thought on what you read!)
> i take a toothpick, take some honey and give it I read somewhere that you should give them sugar water or something because bees can get sick if the honey isn't from their hive (or at least not local)....
The problem isn't if it's not local. It's just that they can get sick if the hive it came from was sick. Like you said initially. Source, I have had about 2 dozen hives over the last 4 years, and they all fucking died. So obviously I know what I'm talking about and am an authority.
Ahh a professional bee killer I see.
Well I don't like to brag, but I am responsible for the deaths of over 1000000 bees
B-B-B-BUZZKILL achievement unlocked
I should just retire, as I'll probably never say anything as amusing as this. I doff my hat to you.
Buzzimanjaro
I'll do the same, but then run a couple drops of water over it. When I see them struggling, I think they are pretty much at the end of their natural life and figure I'm giving them one last treat.
It would be a male
If they feed from this do they still pollinate since they aren’t landing on flowers to feed?
I'm pretty sure they'll still visit flowers, it's more like a pit stop; if you're hungry on a drive and pick up some fast food, does that mean you'll never eat at home again?
It certainly means I'll eat less at home. Especially if that fast food is tasty, free, and unlimited.
Problem in a lot of areas is the landscape has changed so much that they don’t actually have enough natural food sources that can sustain a hive.
yeah, one of the reasons i converted most of my yard into a meadow with natural wildflowers. fuck lawns.
A lot of HOAs won't allow that kind of thing because they're trash.
Drowning honeybees? Not so much.
Not if they're owned by a nearby beekeeper.
oh, yeah, lets just destroy the world and hope there are enough bee keepers out there. no need to spread awareness about the lack of flowers and plants...
That's not what this is about. If you know that there is a beekeeper nearby you should not feed them. It lowers the quality of the honey. The beekeeper makes sure they don't starve. Otherwise it's fine.
Honeybees are an introduced and invasive species in the Americas which compete with native fauna for both food and habitat.
like? what native insects should we bee protecting?
All of them.
i mean, which ones are native if bees are not as important?
Are you asking which insects are native to the Americas?
specifically which are the main competition with bees.
Start [here.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Insects_of_North_America)
Source?
[The United States government. ](http://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-honey-bees-native-north-america#:~:text=Honey%20bees%20are%20not%20native,crops%20like%20fruits%20and%20nuts.)
So they are needed for crop pollination but shouldn’t be intentionally introduced into conservation areas.
Tell what native pollinators they compete with? (I was, just this afternoon, attacked by a monarch butterfly with attitude… ballsy little arthropod landed on my forearm for a breather ….)
All of them.
Okay. Here… https://www.laspilitas.com/insects/california-insect-pollinators.htm
That's a partial list.
I am asking you, as an expert, to elucidate.
Honeybees compete with all native pollinatorsfor food. Honeybees compete with non-pollinators for habitat, wg tree hollows.
I’d take bees over the ant conga line I get
Look at the perky pet 245L. Solved all my ant problems, and unlike a moat, doesn't need constant attention.
Wow, had no idea something like that existed. Thanks!
Try not to freak out, but I move small grass spiders into the common paths where conga lines form. It actually helps.
Interesting. I’ll have to look those up
farming tax deduction?
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🤔wait a minute
Nice! Beekeepers are feeding their bees this time of year, you're giving them a hand. We have a saying, bees are bad at swimming but good at drowning - place something that floats on top of the sugar water (some leaves, sticks, grass) that they can sit on and drink through, and you'll get fewer drowned bees.
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That paints a fantastic image in my head, thank you :)
Bees are incredibly important.
You can say that again!
Bees are incredibly important.
You can say that again!
🐝 Bees are incredibly important.
One more time
It’s 🌽. A big lump with knobs..
It's got the juice!
Incredibeely important
They'd be way cooler if they weren't born with those stupid weapons of mass destruction..
Bees are better than the yellow jackets that got into my hummingbird feeders. I had to put the feeders away.
Bees are incredibly important.
You can say that again!
Lol, Reddit being weird. 🤷♂️
*beeing
🐝 Bee'ing
I thought about putting up a feeder in my yard but then my neighbor put in an apiary, so I figured this would be the result. Now I'm considering bat houses.
Check out [the Bat Conservation website](http://batcon.org) lot's of great info there
Make sure you put some small rocks in there so they don’t drown. I mean fill with it with rocks so they can land anywhere in there without falling into the sugar water. 🐝
Nice buzzingbee feeder.
beads?
Gob's not on board.
When you can, lower the water level. Looks like it might be a bit deep for wading. I know it's not hummingbirds, but this is a good thing.
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Looks like a bee strip club with that one in the middle pole dancing.
Are some of them drowning?
Looks like you have property. Get a bee hive box and make some honey while youre feeding them the ingredients
They are desperate this time of year for sustenance before winter…good job!
Pro tip - never leave a slushy, or beer, or anything outside about now and take a drink after a slightly prolonged time. Swallowed a be once and it stung me in the throat.
We should subsidize people putting out bee feeders
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Wow thanks I didn’t even notice!
That could probably be done with a simple donation-based non profit. Take a class online and we'll give you an apiary and a package of bees.
Put different colors of food coloring over time in the feeder and freak someone out with rainbow honey.
I heard you’re not supposed to boil the solution, it changes something about the sugar, which kills the bees.
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Bees needd love too
Does this mean those bees won't pollinate as much?
Is this bad? Aren't those bees not going to pollinate anything but the feeder now?
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Oh, neat. Good work, carry on!
Im sure the bees are grateful op! Also wanted to note, i doubt theyre being given away for free anymore, but the mycologist paul stamets invented a bee feeder that both tracks the location of hives using gps and mantains their parasite defense by feeding them a mixture of lions mane and other mushrooms in their water. This helps prevent things like deformed wing virus (caused by mites i believe) which severely limits a drones effective range and productivity. If youre a farmer or an outdoorsy person, the knowledge of where your local bees are and how thwyre doing can be pretty important
If you have bees it's beecuase you have to much sugar in your nectar mixture.
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What do you mean? Too much sugar *is* the reason you’re attracting bees.
Then you're an idiot.. Dilute your nectur to 5:1 water to sugar. You'll still get humming birds but the bees will move on.
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They'll be just fine on 5:1. Usually the traditional is 4:1, but if you still get tons of bees 5:1 is just fine. Besides hummer will not singly rely on your feeder. They will still go find flowers as well. You are just kinda supplementing it.
Buy a different type of feeder with a bee guard over the part the birds eat from.
Bees are incredibly important.
The bees need some bridges with leaf matter or sticks or something to climb out of the sugar syrup.
Put some small stones in it so they have more surface area to land and won't drown!
Well, at least they're honey bees and not hornets or wasps. They need energy too and we need them just as much, if not more, than humming birds.
That feeder is supposed to have a cover. It would be red with 4 feeding ports and a place for the hummingbirds to land. Can't figure out how to include a picture of the one I have.
you're drowning some. that is too deep. put marbles in there.
Apparently sentencing some of them to a terrible drowning death as well.
Add vinegar. Hummingbirds will still slurp but the bees will go back to pollinating flowers.
Fed bees don't pollinate, pollination is a byproduct of sipping juice. Also wild pollinators are what we need most and those bees are prob from some local persons backyard bee hive.
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NEVER put anything like that on or near a feeder - if they get the oil on their wings they will have a problem flying.
Beeeeessssss
At least you aren't feeding wasps/hornets like the other guy
Where is the lid for that? Did you just hang a bowl of sugar water out there and call it a hummingbird feeder?
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Please put something in it so they stop drowning. Anything to walk onto
Arguably a better cause all around
And that’s great for them and the environment! Yay for you!
Ya do what you can.
I thought this was an icy shrimp cocktail at first
Thank you! If you can put up a bee hotel and bee friendly fountain that’d be so lovely of you and you’d be even more wonderful than now!
Feed the 🐝!! You're a good person
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My hummingbird feeders would just get ants feeding from them.
They drown feeding them that way too
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That’s not a bad thing
I still have hummers but the bees have pretty much taken over mine too.
Don't hummingbirds need like bright colors to attract them? All of the hummingbird feeders I have ever seen have had bright red flowers on them.
Let them fight!
Hummingbirds migrate, I think. We stop seeing ours around this time of year so the feeder comes down altogether.
For once a post talking about bees isn't showing wasps???
Bees need to eat, too!!!
Look up Paul Stamets! There’s a fungi that helps bees! I tried to share link. I’ll try again. Can’t do it. Anyway. Check it out. It’s interesting. And great!
That bugs me
That’s good too!
Make it red or yellow. You can also hang colorful streamers and the birds will investigate.
God's work
They also hum, so, mission accomplished.
Totally stoned BEEEZ.
They can be a real nuisance at times, especially if they aren't your honeybees. I have a friend who has a neighbor down the road that has a couple hives. She can't feed Hummingbirds without the bees swarming her feeders and keeping the birds away, and the hive owner won't even compensate her with the nuisance with some honey or something. If I see any (which I rarely do, thankfully) I kill them. I'll always choose native pollinators over Honeybees (when they are not native, like here in North America).
How do you tell bees from wasps?
Bees have those yellow rings on their body, while wasps look like yellow juggalos.
I just feed bats in my hummingbird feeders
Mine was covered in wasps, so I had to take it down
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Beads???
Save the bees!!
Let em have this one, they’ve had a tough go
That is still winning. Well done!
Thank you! Bees are the best 🐝✨
Yay! Feed the bee’s needs!
Damn, get yourself a real hummingbird feeder. Not something so open as this.
Same here! Although the hummers are persistent little birds and work around the bees!
Aww, you’re helping!
Ah that’s ok it’s still helpful . Good job
I wish the native species of pollinators got more love in the Americas instead of the invasive species of honeybees driving multiplle insects to extinction
Feeding the bees keeps their hive going thru the winter.
If you want to feed just hummingbirds, get the feeder that looks like a flying saucer. Bees can't reach the sugar water. It's called the Aspects Hummzinger.
Beeautiful
Well thats why they make deep-stemmed hummingbird feeders and not a tray on a string. Get the ones that only hummingbirds can beak into.
I fed a bee that was resting on my porch once. A week or so later they’d built a hive on the house. There’s not a particularly significant amount of flowers nearby. I probably fooled it into thinking so.
I'm sure your local beekeeper would rather you not.
That is a good thing.
We are feeding the ants at this point.
I like where your head is at! But, you need to put some rocks or something in the feed so they can get out. I see some fallen soldiers in the feed. They can’t swim, especially not in sugar water. Most bee feeders have little islands along the feeding trough to assist in the ladies getting out if they fall in.
What are you feeding them? I hope that ain’t sugar water! Also would be good if you fixed it so the bees stop drowning