Hummingbird Feeder With A Built-In Ant Moat

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An 8 oz glass hummingbird feeder with a moat you fill with water at the cap and a mesh guard set into all four ports.

Ants Up Top, Bees At The Ports Four Ports, Four Perches Wide Mouth, No Funnel Hang It Where You'll See It

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Ants find a hummingbird feeder before the hummingbirds do. They come down the hanging wire in a thin dark line, get into the nectar, and by the time you have noticed, the batch is finished and the birds have gone to somebody else’s garden for the week.

The cap on this one answers that with water. It is moulded as a shallow open dish sitting directly above the bottle — a moat — and you fill it from a watering can at the same time you fill the hummingbird feeder. Ants come down the hook, meet the water and stop there. Nothing about it is clever, which is most of why it works. The one thing it asks of you: water goes down faster than nectar does in hot weather, so top the moat up when you check the feeder, or it is just an empty dish.

Bees are the other half of the problem, and they get handled at the ports rather than at the top. Each of the four flower-shaped ports has a small yellow mesh guard sitting in the middle of it. A hummingbird’s bill is a needle and goes straight through the lattice to the nectar underneath; blunter mouthparts stop at the mesh. The nectar sits below the guard instead of at the surface of an open hole, and that is the whole mechanism — not that no insect ever lands on the hummingbird feeder, but that the sweet part is not sitting out in the open waiting for one.

The bottle is glass rather than plastic. It stays clear enough to read the nectar level from the kitchen window, so you know whether this hummingbird feeder needs doing before you walk out to it. The shape is an hourglass — wide at the shoulder, pinched at the waist, flaring again at the foot — and it screws down onto the red base on a moulded glass thread.

Eight fluid ounces makes this a small hummingbird feeder, and that is a trade rather than a shortcoming. Nectar does not keep in warm weather; a few days and it goes cloudy. A big reservoir mostly means pouring more of it away, while a small one runs down at about the rate you ought to be changing it anyway. If you already have half a dozen birds working one feeder, expect to be out there every couple of days.

Cleaning is where a hummingbird feeder is won or lost, and this one comes all the way apart. The cap lifts off, the base unscrews, the four flower ports pull out, the four bee guards come out of the ports, and what is left is a bottle with a mouth wide enough to take a bottle brush — no funnel, no cotton bud, no corner you cannot reach. Nothing is glued and nothing needs a tool.

Hang it from the S-hook through the cap: a porch beam, a low branch, a shepherd’s hook in a border, a bracket on a fence post. Put it somewhere you will actually look at it. A hummingbird feeder in the far corner of the garden becomes a chore; one you can see from a chair is the reason you wanted a hummingbird feeder in the first place.

Ants Up Top, Bees At The Ports
Four Ports, Four Perches
Wide Mouth, No Funnel
Hang It Where You'll See It

One size, nothing to choose — what matters is where it goes and how often you look after it.

Capacity – 8 fl oz of nectar in a clear glass bottle
Ports – four flower-shaped ports, each with a yellow mesh bee guard
Perches – four U-shaped perches, one under each port
Ant moat – a shallow dish moulded into the top cap; fill it with water
Hanging – a metal S-hook through the cap: branch, porch beam, shepherd’s hook or fence bracket
Cleaning – cap, base, bottle, ports and bee guards all separate

Top the moat up whenever you check the nectar. Water goes down faster than nectar does in a hot week, and a dry moat has nothing to stop an ant with.

Type: hanging glass hummingbird feeder
Capacity: 8 fl oz of nectar
Bottle: clear glass, hourglass shape, wide screw-thread mouth
Ports: 4 flower-shaped, each with a yellow mesh bee guard
Perches: 4 U-shaped, one under each port
Ant moat: moulded into the top cap, filled with water
Mounting: hangs from a metal S-hook through the cap
Cleaning: fully disassembles — cap, base, bottle, ports and bee guards
Dimensions: not published by the maker, so we do not quote one

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Four ports for the birds. A moat for everything else.

THE INSECT PART

Ants Up Top, Bees At The Ports

The cap is a shallow dish you fill with water, so ants coming down the hook reach it and stop. Lower down, a yellow mesh guard sits in the middle of every flower port, keeping the nectar below the lattice rather than at the surface of an open hole. Two different problems, handled in two different places.

Ants Up Top, Bees At The Ports
The cap is a shallow dish you fill with water, so ants coming down the hook reach it and stop. Lower down, a yellow mesh guard sits in the middle of every flower port, keeping the nectar below the lattice rather than at the surface of an open hole. Two different problems, handled in two different places.

FOUR AT ONCE

Four Ports, Four Perches

Four flower-shaped ports are spaced around the base, and each one has its own U-shaped perch underneath it. Hummingbirds will hover to feed, but they would rather sit, and a bird that can perch stays at the feeder far longer — which is the difference between a blur going past the window and something you get to watch.

Four Ports, Four Perches
Four flower-shaped ports are spaced around the base, and each one has its own U-shaped perch underneath it. Hummingbirds will hover to feed, but they would rather sit, and a bird that can perch stays at the feeder far longer — which is the difference between a blur going past the window and something you get to watch.

TWO MINUTES

Wide Mouth, No Funnel

The glass bottle opens as wide as a jam jar, so filling it is a straight pour and washing it takes a bottle brush rather than patience. Cap, base, bottle, the four ports and the four bee guards all separate, which means every surface the nectar touches is a surface you can actually get at.

Wide Mouth, No Funnel
The glass bottle opens as wide as a jam jar, so filling it is a straight pour and washing it takes a bottle brush rather than patience. Cap, base, bottle, the four ports and the four bee guards all separate, which means every surface the nectar touches is a surface you can actually get at.

PUT IT ANYWHERE

Hang It Where You'll See It

One metal S-hook through the top cap, and it will go on a porch beam, a low branch, a shepherd’s hook in a border or a bracket on a fence post. Give it a little clear air on every side so birds can come in from any direction, and put it in front of a window you sit at.

Hang It Where You'll See It
One metal S-hook through the top cap, and it will go on a porch beam, a low branch, a shepherd’s hook in a border or a bracket on a fence post. Give it a little clear air on every side so birds can come in from any direction, and put it in front of a window you sit at.

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Hang it by a window. Give it a week.

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Ants Up Top, Bees At The Ports

The cap is a shallow dish you fill with water, so ants coming down the hook reach it and stop.

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Four Ports, Four Perches

Four flower-shaped ports are spaced around the base, and each one has its own U-shaped perch underneath it.

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Wide Mouth, No Funnel

The glass bottle opens as wide as a jam jar, so filling it is a straight pour and washing it takes a bottle brush rather than patience.

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Hang It Where You'll See It

One metal S-hook through the top cap, and it will go on a porch beam, a low branch, a shepherd’s hook in a border or a bracket on a fence post.

How we compare.

What a glass feeder with a moat and mesh guards does that a plain one does not.

Ours

A plain plastic feeder

A saucer feeder

Ant moat moulded into the top cap

A mesh bee guard set into every port

Four ports, each with its own U-shaped perch

Glass bottle rather than plastic

Nectar level readable from a distance

Strips down completely for washing

Frequently asked
questions.

The questions people actually ask before buying one.

The top cap is moulded as a shallow open dish. You pour water into it, and ants coming down the hanging hook reach that water and stop — they will not walk through it to get to the nectar below. It needs topping up: water goes down faster than nectar in hot weather, and a dry moat is just a dish. Make it part of the same job as checking the feeder.

Each of the four ports has a yellow mesh guard set into it, so the nectar sits below the lattice instead of at the surface of an open hole. A hummingbird’s bill passes through the mesh; blunter mouthparts do not reach. Insects will still take an interest in a sweet thing hanging in a garden — the guards mean they have far less to work with, not that they never turn up.

8 fl oz of nectar, in a clear glass bottle you can read at a glance from indoors. It is a small feeder on purpose: nectar goes off in warm weather, so a smaller batch tends to be a fresher one.

The maker publishes no height or width for this one, so we are not going to quote you a figure we cannot stand behind. What is published, and what actually matters when you are deciding: it holds 8 fl oz, it has four ports and four perches, and it is a compact bottle feeder rather than a large reservoir. If you need an exact clearance for a bracket, measure the space and allow for a hook.

Yes — a clear glass hourglass bottle that screws down onto the red base on a moulded glass thread. The cap, base, ports and perches are plastic; the bottle is not. Glass stays clear, which is the practical reason to want it: you can see how much is left without taking anything down.

Take it apart. The cap lifts off, the base unscrews from the bottle, the four flower ports pull out and the four bee guards come out of the ports. Wash everything in hot water, rinse it well and let it dry before refilling. In warm weather do that every few days, at the same time you change the nectar.

From the metal S-hook through the top cap — a porch beam, a low branch, a shepherd’s hook in a flower bed or a bracket on a fence post all work. Leave a little clear air around it so birds can approach from any side, and pick a spot you can see from inside. Near flowering plants helps birds find it in the first place.

Free U.S. shipping and a 30-day return window. Hang it, give it a week or two, and send it back if it is not what you pictured.