{"product_id":"hummingbird-feeder-with-a-built-in-ant-moat-8-oz-glass-4-ports-and-bee-guards","title":"Hummingbird Feeder With A Built-In Ant Moat - 8 oz Glass, 4 Ports And Bee Guards","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnts 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBees 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCleaning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHang 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnts Up Top, Bees At The Ports\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour Ports, Four Perches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWide Mouth, No Funnel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHang It Where You'll See It\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43309277970509,"sku":"WL-HUMMGLASS","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/a0684c59b54ce1d5d46bdf73bb28c1df.png?v=1785007625","url":"https:\/\/www.winslowlane.com\/products\/hummingbird-feeder-with-a-built-in-ant-moat-8-oz-glass-4-ports-and-bee-guards","provider":"Winslow Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}