Ant Moat for Hummingbird feeders, Ant Guard Accessory Hooks for Oriole Feeders, Large Size Get Rid of All Ants in Nectar Feeder for Outdoors (2 Hook + 2 Brush)- Black

It's easy to use, keeps the ants away, nothing else I have tried keeps the ants away. Within 2 days the ants were back. Hung these, added water, 2 days later no ants in food but plenty dead in water reservoir, just like promised.

The amazon person delivered my neighbor's order to me, instead of this. I have a momma hummingbird sitting on a nest, to feed -- so I went to my local small businesses garden store, and bought the bigger red ant moat for around $6.99, that you can see in the pic I took.I didn't want red, because I didn't want hummers to think it is a flower. But after I got a red one, I think red is fine, because hummers can drink from the moat if they need water.I never used any oil in the red moat, and it worked great, for about 4 days. But today I saw ants starting to get into the feeder (skipping the moat by dropping in, maybe?), so I took down the whole setup, washed it with soap -- and re-set up with the replacement moat amazon sent, with a dab of peppermint essential oil on the hook, hoping to deter ants for longer than 4 days.In real life, the amazon moats look more like a fake dull gold color than a copper color. Also, they are smaller than the local red one I found. Also, there was less expense for me to buy one, than to buy two.However, ant moats DO work better than anything else I can find, to keep ants out of the sugar water. So I give 3 stars for the review.

Many of these moats are small and have to have the water replenished so often especially in the heat. At least with these you don't have to replenish as often, and they're metal so they'll last longer than the plastic ones (which won't last long in the desert sun guaranteed!). I find that House Finches that are raiding the oriole feeder (who doesn't love a cool drink of sugar water?) are also drinking from the moats. I think because they feel safer drinking there than going to the ground to get water out of a bird bath, which is a more vulnerable position for them. So while I had intended to put some vegetable oil in the water to help with evaporative loss due to heat, I'm thinking that I'll forgo that idea and just focus on keeping the ants at the gate.

These are large enough that you don't have to add water daily to keep them working. After one season, they still look like they just came out of the box. Keeps the ants out of the hummingbird feeder and my wife started using Fruit and Nut bird seed in a different feeder and the ants went for the fruit. Put this up and it stopped that. One plus is that we see small birds land on the feeder hanger and get drinks of water out of the ant trap.

I had my doubts but these ant moats really do work. These are larger then some but do not distract from my feeding area. Easy to fill.. I DID NOT add oil to my water since I have house finches that like to have a sip of this easy to locate water. All in all these have saved me from changing the feeders daily due to dead ants that got inside the feeder.

Only problem is you have to make sure you keep water in them. As long as they’re full, no ants in the humming bird feeder.

Got this on an impulse. I bought a new hummingbird feeder and this came up. I knew these are mostly smaller, so you do have to fill them pretty frequently. But with my old dollar tree feeder (which worked fine) I did get ants on it or inside. I haven't had any ants so far. And I haven't been great at refilling it, but it does work.

I had high hopes, but this didn't keep the ants out of my bottle feeder.. They crawled right down the hook, dropped into the water, swam to the side and continued down the bottom hook.