brushy mountain hive top feeders

[Keith13]

Does anybody have any experience with these? I purchased two and they finally came in and I just don’t see how the bees get to the feed. They have this straw looking things that hang down but don’t extend into the syrup. Also do you place them above the brood chamber then put an empty super over it then below the inner cover. Thanks

[dlmarti]

Brushy Mountain sells a bunch of hive top feeders, I don't understand which one you've purchased.

[KONASDAD]

Genrally they go above brood area and its is the very top, w/ only a telescoping on top of feeder. No inner cover is used. Cant answer as to how beee get there as i dont have a brushy mountain. I use Mann lakes and they crawl up into a channel where they hang on screen and access the feed.

[Keith13]

its the plastic 10 frame hive top feeder catalog # 423 if that helps

[dlmarti]

I've never used that type, from the picture it looks like you put the feeder on the very top box (just like all the other top feeders), then put an empty box on top of it, and a telescoping top on top of that.

If you still have a question call Brushy, they are a great bunch of guys.

[woodchopper]

its the plastic 10 frame hive top feeder catalog # 423 if that helps

We've got ten of them. They work a lot better than the wooden ones they sell. We like them a lot and will probably be the only kind we buy from now on. We don't use an empty super and we do use the inner cover. Not sure if that's the way it was intended to be used but it works.