4 Pack Bee Feeders Easy-to-Install Beekeeping Beehive Equipment Perforated Lid Fits Mason and Plastic Jars Water and Sugar Syrup Entry Feeder or Top Dispenser Beekeeping

Right away you read ‘Conservative Beekeeper’ and are thinking “who is this nut? I’m not ‘Conservative’….so a better word choice maybe should have been ‘CHEAP’!I’m CHEAP! I build my own hives and make my own equipment, I sew up holes in my bee suit and use ‘recovered’ wood from fallen buildings to build equipment…I’m CHEAP. Okay…that’s cleared up….I bought these with some hesitation….couldn’t I just take a mason jar and drill holes in the lid and make a wood bracket with a hole to slip the neck of the jar and lid through? Sure…and with what wood costs and my time in the shop coming up with a functional design…I would have spent MORE! The best features of these ‘Bee Cup Holders’ are:1. Inexpensive. Not always the most important thing but it gets my attention.2. They work. They are easy to rinse and repeat and remount on site with only a bucket of clean rinse water or a nearby creek.3. THEY KEEP WORKING FOR YEARS! The simple design is meant for the beekeeper who does not want to re-invent the wheel every couple of years. The plastic platform with the sturdy mount means that you are not replacing rotted or warped or sun bleached cracked wood every two years. Even if you paint them they will fail in time. These will last longer than you bee hive….you can use them on the REPLACEMENT Bee Hive!….probably for the next 250 years that it takes for the plastic to break down…(though the lid may rust before that point.4. Yes…they are simple and can be easily made on a 3D printer….that said…Do you HAVE a 3D printer and design and 16 hours to print each one?! No? JUST BUY SOME! They are cheap, good quality and long lasting.5. They REALLY hold up to the hype! Once the first few droplets whiz out, atmospheric vacuum takes over creating a static condition in which the bees are in control of the flow and it will not drain out unless you mounted it very wrong or the laws of physics change dramatically. If that happens…THIS ITEM not working properly is NOT your biggest immediate problem!OKAY! All that said, allow me to conclude: Conservative=CHEAP FARMER, Thick Plastic=YEARS of Great Reliable Performance, Will NOT Rot or Warp or Break…(proviso-see: ‘Nuclear War’, ‘Laws of Physics Change),Keeps WORKING until long after you and your great, great, great,great, great, grand-beekeepers are LONG DEAD!Buy some….then buy more…(You KNOW you are going to split your hives and keep adding more bees until your yard is a sea of white boxes….just…buy MORE!)

The issues I have with this product is that: 1: The jar covers themselves are quite flimsy. They bend very easily if you put excess pressure on them. The metal is simply too thin. Secondly, the plastic holders do not fit into the hives I have at all. They are too loose. However, they did not cost a great deal and I have used them successfully for the past two months. It's just that when I take the jars out of the holders, I have to pin the holders too the hive so that they don't come out of the hive with the jar. I rated them as low as I did because I believe the manufacturer could have made a sturdier unit with very little additional cost.

Well made and arrived as scheduled

I am a new beekeeper and was looking for a simple, clean way to feed my bees. I actually came across a different brand for a few cents cheaper, but when looking at the pictures it looked like the holes weren't as cleanly drill out with small burrs left on the lids so I decided to splurge the extra 20 cents, plus these are at least sold by a Louisiana family. I can't speak for the other brand, but these were well done with clean holes and no burrs. They seem to work well, they fit well in my hive entrance, and the jars do not leak. I am really happy so far with this purchase.

Fill a jar with feed, screw on the feeder, flip it over and slip it in the hive opening. Easy peasy, right?Well, not really. The legs on the feeder aren't quick the right size to fit in the hive opening, going so far as to lift the edge of the hive up a small amount on the side with the feeder. Even with this super tight fit, the feeder itself isn't balanced right to hold a large jar. Pint jars work okay, quart jars threaten disaster. But then the pint jar runs out super fast, meaning you have to replace them all the time.So maybe use quart jars but don't put it in the opening? Okay, but where? If you have a in hive feeder tall enough to accommodate the jar, that might work, but then you have an in hive feeder, meaning you have better options already available. I tried just setting the jar on top of the hive, which is easily accessible to the bees. And the ants. And the squirrels. And to every other beehive within a three mile radius. It's a recipe for robbing.I may end up using one of these in the future if I have some small amount of medication or supplement I want to make available to the hive. Otherwise, it's going in the 'bee stuff I don't really use' pile.

The lids fit my Ball mason jars perfectly. They pop out of the plastic base easily enough. I throw the jars and lids in the dishwasher and hand wash the white plastic base. Great product.

I keep two of these for each hive I have. That way I can have half of them on the hives with the other half ready to be filled and deployed as needed. It's worth the price to simplify my hive management routine.

These feeders came on time and are an improvement over the old metal ones that I had been using. They are a good value and are a keeper.