Feeders for bees do it yourself

Feeders for bees made by their own hands can be as high quality and comfortable as the store. They are different: in the form of a box, from a plastic bottle, exterior, ceiling and others.

Types of bees feeders

1. The frame feeder - in the hive it is placed on special protrusions, on the upper boards, in length and height coincides with the frame, but it is a little wider. Sugar syrup is poured through the funnel, there is a grid inside the feeder, which does not allow bees to be drowned in the liquid.
2. The sandbrama feeder for bees - the name itself suggests that she puts over the frames and thereby turns off the nest of bees. And during the feeding, they cannot fly. In the trough there are several branches, one for the passage, and in the rest there is sugar syrup.
3. Glass jars - some beekeepers do not build any feeders at all, but put ordinary glass jars.
4. Ceiling feeders for bees are rectangular containers within which vertical partitions are located. Thanks to this simple and easy-to-use design, bees do not sink in syrup. The feed in it does not cool due to the fact that the bee club heats it, you can also control feed consumption. If you do such a feeder for bees with your own hands, then in the frame you need to install a canvas. It is cut through a thin gap so that the bees can fly inside. The box is covered with glass and pillow. To add food, you need to push the glass. For hives with several buildings of this kind, the feeder is hung in August. At this time, it is put on it. In the feeder, the bees will be built cell cells. In December, they pour dissipated honey and every two weeks during the checks of the nests, the syrup is poured.
5. Feeder for bees Outdoor is one of the most convenient designs. It consists of a dense drawer, which is attached to the back of the hive. From above, the feeder is closed with a lid that rests on the loops. In order for bees to be freely penetrated into the feeder, the hole is made in the rear wall. The box put a bowl into which the feed is poured, a fuel is put on top so that the bees do not tone. Among the disadvantages, you can allocate what feed in it quickly freezes, after which the bees will not be able to eat it.

Plastic bottle feeder

The easiest and most economical option to create feeders is the use of a plastic bottle, preferably dark and two-liter.

1. Heat the nail on the fire and make it in a plastic bottle with a hole of 1.5 mm in diameter. Holes to do a little than them more, the faster the bees will take syrup if you have done some extra, then you can stick them with a scotch. Thus, it is possible to stretch the number of syrup for a longer period.
2. All holes to fuck with scotch. This is done immediately before the feeder fill with syrup.
3. In the hive on the ceiling to make a hole with a chisel, where the bottle is then placed horizontally.
4. Remove the extra tape, open holes.

Advantages of homemade plastic bees feeders:

• easy to wash;
• cheap stands;
• just make;
• suitable for the hives with a low roof;
• you can adjust with the help of the tape the number of holes, and, it means, the speed of the syrup.

Cut for bees from tin can

Before making a feeder for bees, you need to look around, what materials are at hand. In if you have preserved tin cans from canned, you can make a good feeder.

1. Wash the bank and dry.
2. Pour syrup or honey, diluted with water.
3. From above to cover the cotton fabric or gauze, folded several times.
4. Secure fabric with rubber band.
5. Finished feeder turn over the bottom of the bottom and arrange above the socket above the framework. To be the best access to food, the feeder can be lifted, putting on the bars, so that small gaps remain.
6. You can put moss inside the feeders, and to cover with wooden sticks on top, so the bees will be more convenient to get honey.

Bars for feeders are best used wide and small. This material has a number of advantages: thanks to thin walls that are well conducted heat, the feed in the container does not push for a long time. Also behind such troughs it is easy to care for, they are easily clean, it remains only to boil them and can be used again.

Foam bees feeder

The design of the feeder is so simple that even a beginner beekeeper can make it:

1. Select a conical capacity of food plastics with a diameter of 20 cm.
2. Cut out of the foam disk 3 cm thick, exactly according to the opening of the container. It can be cut with a wire, heated knife or blade from the hacksaw. The foam should be good, you can use the one that is taken to pack furniture or technology, and loose, the construction foam is better not to touch. Please note that the smell of foam should not be.
3. The disc is adjusted to the container so that their surfaces are in the same plane.
4. Pleep a hot metal rod on the outside of the groove disk. They should pass perpendicular to each other from one edge to another. The grooves make a width of about 5 mm and at the same distance from each other.
5. In the center of the disk make several holes about 7 mm in diameter, and on the sides of the disk - 4 grooves depth and width of 5 mm.
6. If a large-diameter feeder or foam is not very durable, then you need to install the strut between the disk and the bottom of the container. The strut can be made of a plastic bottle in which to cut the bottom and neck. As a result, the cylinder will turn out, on the edges of which you need to make a groove through which feed and air will pass.
7. Make a filter. The material will serve as a siter from which it is necessary to cut the circle for several centimeters larger than the diameter of the container. To put food in the feeder, and the fabric fasten the rubber band, straighten all the folds and turn it upside down. Set over the opposition on the rail. If syrup is poured, it means that the fabric is too thin if the surface is dry, it means, on the contrary, too dense. Ideally, a little syrup (1 tablespoon) (1 tablespoon) follows the fabric, and there should be no more fluid.

To see in detail how to make feeders for bees can be looking at the video.