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Hummingbird Hunts a Bug (Original Post)
Donkees
Jul 2024
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Walleye
(35,678 posts)1. The bees are bugging my Hummers
Donkees
(32,398 posts)2. It might help to remove any yellow 'blossom' inserts from the feeders (?)
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
(35,678 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
AllaN01Bear
(23,053 posts)4. youre mine ! death from below.
Conjuay
(2,109 posts)5. You have incredible reflexes!
I couldn't keep either in my viewfinder ☹️