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Donkees

(33,745 posts) Mon Jul 22, 2024, 06:41 AM Jul 2024

Hummingbird Hunts a Bug

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Hummingbird Hunts a Bug (Original Post) Donkees Jul 2024 OP

The bees are bugging my Hummers Walleye Jul 2024 #1

It might help to remove any yellow 'blossom' inserts from the feeders (?) Donkees Jul 2024 #2

Thank you the main feeder is just red and white and the bees don't infest that nearly as badly as the ones with yellow Walleye Jul 2024 #3

youre mine ! death from below. AllaN01Bear Jul 2024 #4

You have incredible reflexes! Conjuay Jul 2024 #5

Walleye

(45,517 posts)

1. The bees are bugging my Hummers

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2024, 07:19 AM

Jul 2024

Donkees

(33,745 posts)

2. It might help to remove any yellow 'blossom' inserts from the feeders (?)

Reply to Walleye (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 22, 2024, 07:59 AM

Jul 2024

The only yellow blossoms I have here are on cucumber vines, some distance away from the all-red feeders, and have only red blossoms near the feeders. That seems to have solved the 'bees bugging hummers' problem here.

Walleye

(45,517 posts)

3. Thank you the main feeder is just red and white and the bees don't infest that nearly as badly as the ones with yellow

Reply to Donkees (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 22, 2024, 08:05 AM

Jul 2024

AllaN01Bear

(29,808 posts)

4. youre mine ! death from below.

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2024, 11:02 AM

Jul 2024

Conjuay

(3,108 posts)

5. You have incredible reflexes!

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Wed Jul 24, 2024, 03:05 PM

Jul 2024

I couldn't keep either in my viewfinder ☹️

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