It only took the bees about 5 mins after closing up the hive to figure out how to get through the tubing and into the feeder. They flew right onto the board that I had made to float on top of the syrup and began feeding. The only problem with the set up was that they could not figure out how to get back out. They would try to get out and then fall into the syrup. They would crawl back up onto the board and try again only to end up in the syrup again. I watched this for about 10 mins and then decided to rescue the sugar coated bees and dismantle the feeder. My brother mentioned that it was kind of similar in design to the wasp traps that you screw onto a 2 liter bottle, the bees get in but they cant get out.
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