How can I stop yellow jackets from flying around the "port hole" of my hummingbird feeder?
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
Use bowls of sugar water. From Annemberg Learner:
Place a very shallow bowl with strong sugar water about 5 or 6 feet away from the feeders. (You may need to begin close to the feeder and move it farther away incrementally.) This will keep the insects around to pollinate your flowers while giving them a food source besides the hummingbird feeder.
First - look at your hummingbird feeder and if it has yellow (most feeders do) take the guards off and paint them red (bee society says fingernail polish is safe to use or model paint - but something non toxic) as yellow attracts yellow jackets and wasps.
Somethings (traps) are good for keeping bees and yellow jackets/wasps alike but some traps are designed more for the wasp types.
They now make something called Nectar Guard Tips wasp guards that fits in the feeding holes of your feeders and the hummingbirds can still eat but the yellow jackets/wasps cannot get to the food and will leave.
Here are some links that have some information so check them out as each one has different suggestions and you may be able to use one of them.
www.wpr.org/
www.thespruce.com/
www.trails.com/
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
