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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => EQUIPMENT USAGE, EXPERIMENTATION, HIVE PLANS, CONSTRUCTION TIPS AND TOOLS => Topic started by: Jerrymac on March 29, 2005, 07:42:56 pm

Title: Feeder problem discovered.
Post by: Jerrymac on March 29, 2005, 07:42:56 pm

I am useing an inverted quart jar for feeding the bees. I think with the day and night  temperatures changing thirty to fourty degrees that it causes even the glass jars to breath. I have found sugar water dripping from the open bottom several times these past few weeks. Luckily the bees are not building comb right under the jar (yet).

Title: Feeder problem discovered.
Post by: Anonymous on March 29, 2005, 09:51:35 pm

Try drilling/cutting a hole in a 2"x6"block of wood and cut some grooves in the sides for the bees to get into the sugar water and you don't have to have it right over the hole to leak on them.

 :D Al