Unlocking Efficiency: What is the Right Hole Size for Bee Feeder Jar? 📏🐝  

I always use a .062 dia drill for holes.

Very interesting video!! I don't know much about bees and beekeeping but enjoyed learning. Thank you for sharing!!

It's actually a really good idea to put coloring in your feed for the bees. It allows you to see WHERE they are storing the feed. If any of the red liquid ends up in your supers (even if you stopped feeding previously) then you know you don't have pure honey.

The amount of airspace helps to determine how good of a vacuum you get. the more full the jar, the less leakage you will get. Good video and experiment!

nice video content. Very helpfull and usefull for all us beeks

The bigger holes that at first did not leak, would they spring a leak when the bees started to feed from the jar? Any difference which direction that you drive the holes through the lid?

Also on your test you have to remember you are using water . Remember syrup is a lot thicker . Also the bees will pull out what they want . So like I suggested keep holes small .

This is a great video. Would have been good to include jar size and feed volume to see if that had any affect

Great video. I was just wondering about hole size. I do like to put bee pollen substitute in the syrup containing HBH and ABB supplements, so when I made the thumbtack or small nail sized holes, it seemed the pollen sub stayed in the jar. Now I know I can go to a larger size before running into dripping issues. Thanks.

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There is no correct size of hole . The amount of syrup is determined by the amount of syrup you want to come out because of how you want to feed . You always use a very small hole but you may just use three holes or you may go with ten or twelve holes . If you just want to stimulate the bees use less amount of holes then if you want to put weight in the hive for say winter you put a lot of holes . Believe it or not but even in steel lids the holes will get bigger the more they are used . Also that gets into something else to what thickness of syrup you are wanting to feed . There are three different mixtures I use these are water & sugar the first is a say 1-1/4 to 1 this one is thinner than a 1 to 1 because this one is a lot closer to nectar. Then the middle one is a 1 to 1 then the last one is a 1 to 2 this one is the thickest mixture. This is used to put a lot of weight on fast to fill the box so the bees will have a lot of food for the winter . Do see there is really no correct size or amount of holes it is just something you learn with years under your belt an learn what each thing does . I do not remember off the top of my head what size holes it is but a tooth pick will just barely fit in the hole to clean the holes out but guessing I would say a 1/16” or or a 1/8” just stay small . On the leakage even with small they will not leak a lot but when the temperature changes it will burp an you will get some leakage . Always fill your jar up full . If you start getting a lot of leakage then your jar is probably getting low an will not hold a vacuum an or you are having a lot of temperature changes from night time to middle of the day. This is hard to put on paper what to do but I hope this helps out .

Then you come out in a week and they haven't been able to pull it out of the holes so they haven't drawn any comb or grown in any way. I've had too many failures playing around with this. Frame feeder or top feeder. Can't miss. However... thank you for the effort.