Thank you. However...you completely missed the point. The glass beads merely displace some of the volume. It reduces by 50 percent the wasting of nectar when we empty and refill twice each week.

@@sandyroloff1075 Try this idea to bee proof a large 32 oz. feeder. kzbin.info/www/bejne/moa5pI2Ci9GZrpYsi=29aKflNRKABT3lWE

Amazon: ‘Aspects 384 Nectar Guard Tips.’

Thank you for your comment. Please contact me with any ideas or questions you have.

Thank you!

Thank you, Louise! I’ll try it this summer when the bees return. We did try peppermint oil last year with good results. But it must be reapplied daily. Please stay tuned. By tomorrow (Friday January 27) we will post a new video about bee-proofing feeders. The idea was sent by another viewer.

Here is my latest video about bee-proofing. Please like, comment, and subscribe if appropriate: kzbin.info/www/bejne/moa5pI2Ci9GZrpY

@@davidpearling2395 day two ,there's bees around but not landing on feeders ,so happy

Our home is in Chula Vista, California, suburban San Diego. We have two invasions of bees during the summer. No wasps. Our first comes in mid July for about two weeks. Then they stop coming. We are bee free for about six weeks. Then the second wave comes. It lasts two weeks. I don’t know why this happens.

Thank you for your idea. In our case, and just like last summer, our bees simply stopped coming. They began coming in large numbers in mid-July and stopped coming a few weeks later. Early last fall we had a second bee invasion. It was as bad as the first. It stopped week or so later. We have not had a second invasion yet this year. But it's early. So...for the time being we will stick with the 4:1 ratio. But I will keep your diluted recipe on file. And stay tuned! We are producing a new video about bee-proofing. We got the idea from another of my viewers, Bill Manders.

That works for bees, but not for wasps.

Hunh. We have wasps in the area, but I've never seen one on the h'bird feeder. Maybe they're just sneakier? @@bernardkung7306

Thank you!

Thank you.

Your story is very interesting. In my garden I find that some of my hummers appear to know me. While walking through they sometimes fly right up to my face in an attitude of, “Hi! What’s happening?”

I believe he's using HummZinger guards. I just checked Amazon and they sell four for over $25 (that's assuming you have Prime. IDK how much they charge for shipping). Based on the Q&A I read on their listing, as well as the reviews, the manufacturer blames the customer when anything breaks or doesn't work properly. I read other reviews and by the way they make it sound, you need to be a rocket surgeon to install them (haha). I'm going to continue searching for a solution but if you try these, I hope you'll post an update! Good luck!

My bee guards are the ‘HummZinger’ Nectar Guard Tips from Amazon. A package of 12 is about $11.

@@davidpearling2395 there must be multiple listings for the same brand/ style. The price you paid is fair. I can't justify spending $25 on something I'm not sure will work, based on other reviews. If they work like they do for you, though, they're well worth the cost!😊

@@lizjoe21750 The bee guards were only partially effective this summer. The bees seemed more determined. I saw some poking their heads into the ports in spite of the bee guards. And we had to be very careful to have no nectar running down the outside. Fill the feeder to no higher than 1/4 inch from the top helper.

@@lizjoe21750 Please read the comments from Mr. Manders on my hummingbird in slow motion video. We has discovered a perfect bee deterrent. Please stay tuned. We will post an updated video.

We have been using the minty spray repellent as needed. It works for only a short time, just a few minutes. Unfortunately the bees returned recently and are not deterred by the bee guards now. But we found that if we do not fill the feeders to the top and are careful that no nectar runs down the side the bees stay away, but not completely. The hummers can reach the nectar with their tongues but apparently the bees can’t. We added two bee traps as a “final solution” (literally). It kills the bees. We don’t like that but we can’t have bees swarming our front porch or our patio. The traps have to be emptied of dozens of dead bees every night. We flush them. I refill the traps every night with about 5 oz. the same nectar we give to our hummers. Last year the bees stopped coming on their own. We hope they stop coming this year. Please tell me your ideas.

@@davidpearling2395 What I did on my First Nature 32oz.Hummingbird feeders to bee proof them was simple. The holes in the feeder are fairly large holes and are not round but oblong. I found some plastic drinking straws that are small straws but will fit perfectly inside the holes of the feeders. I take the feeders apart, clean then well and make sure they are dry. Then I stuck the straw into the hole until it is flush or just barely sticking out on the inside of the feeder. Then I used a hot glue gun on the outside where the little fake flower is to glue all around the straw. Then when cool I cut the straw off leaving about 3/16 inch sticking out of the fake flower. Everybody online says you have to have a small hole so the bee can't get in, but the hummers can, but this is not accurate in my findings. With the straw being this long and still fairly large opening the hummers stick the bill down into the straw lap the sugar water and can pull their bill out without dripping it on the feeder. The bees come, can't reach this far into the feeder to reach the sugar water plus no drippings around the holes and they go back to the hive and spread word this food source is gone. I have so many hummers it looks like a swarm of bees but not one real bee has been back for weeks now since I did my feeders this way!! Each feeder has 10 holes and now has 10 little straws 3/16-inch-tall sticking out of each hole. It took my birds about a half hour to get use to this change and as of right now I have 6 feeders full of Hummers and no bees and a few weeks ago they were covered with bees and running off the birds!! I would show you a picture if this was email but I don't think I can add a pic here on this comment text. But I think I explained what I did so you can have a good idea, but if you have questions I will be glad to try to answer ! Let me know what you think ! Thanks!

@@billmanders2709 Thank you! We love our hummers, don’t we? I would like to see a photo. I would give you my email address except there’s been someone who uses the handle “Rigatony” trolling my KZbin channel. I think I know who he is. If I am correct, that creep has been compared to “cockroach in a gas station urinal” by columnist John Kass. If you would like, send me a private message on Facebook, or Twitter, or LinkedIn. We can discretely exchange email addresses there, and photos. Curiously, bees have NOT been on my large red feeders this year. But they have been on my others. Keeping the nectar level lower on those and making certain that no nectar drips down the side appears to be working. We also bought some citronella plants and candles for our back patio. We’ve only had those for two days and they seem to be working. So far, my combined strategies are keeping the bees off our feeders almost 100%. Try connecting with me, please.

Thank you! It was a wonderful project for us to do together.

Thank you.

I am! It is very nice to hear from you.

Thank you. Yours is a good idea. We are careful to not have nectar running down the outsides of our feeders, too. But during heavy bee times the bees are strongly attracted to the feeding ports. That is where the mint spray helps. It doesn’t harm the bees and our hummers are not bothered by it.

Thank you, Jim.

Thank you for watching. Good luck moving your cactus.

How about this: When you remove a half ton of cactus from a backyard with no access for machinery and do it for the first time, and intend to plant the arms separately, and produce a video, we will watch. Ok?

@@davidpearling2395 fair enough!

What new words have your learned?

@@davidpearling2395 That the German "Blumenkasten" is windowbox, and the englisch names of the plants. like Geranium for Geranien :-)

@@michaelakieckheim506 Joan and I saw so viele Blumenkasten in Deutschland. Most were filled with geraniums. The flowers is ours are New Guinea Impatiens. What is the German word for Impatiens.

@@davidpearling2395 The German word is Edellieschen.

Thank you, Joan!