Will the bees take a jar of honey if you leave it next to the hive?

They’ll take the honey but leave the jar—
that is if the lid is off! ;D

@snowberry
HAHHAHAHAHAHa

They’ll suffocate/drown by the the hundreds in the attempt to get at it in the jar It would be like a stampede for the exit at a rock concert.

Honey is bee vomit. Unlike dogs, they don’t re-ingest it.

Oh they will reingest it in a heartbeat. Start a fire near a hive and they will gorge themselves to the point that they find it difficult to remain airborne.

At a farmer’s market a couple of years ago, I was charmed by the bees crawling around the honey jars at a beekeeper’s booth.

“How do you carry bees here with you?”

“I don’t. They show up on their own.”

My partner became a beekeeper ~three years ago. He now has two hives. I help him conduct hive inspections when available.

Yes, the honeybees will be attracted to the open jar of honey. (They live on their own honey production). Putting a jar of honey out can potentially create two risks.

1. Honeybees are challenged by a lack of balance. For example, we have a bird bath just outside of our hives. It’s filled with pebbles and a shallow level of water. The pebbles provide landing spots for the bees. Even with this set-up, we still have some that drown.

Placing a jar of honey out is highly risky.

2. I recently read that there is potential danger to a hive from feeding them honey from another source. So, unless the honey source is from that hive, it may create a risk to the bees’ health.