Not usually a pest, but does anyone else have this problem?

[GooseMom111]

Over the past month and a half I have had a problem with honey bees mobbing my feeders. I feed crumbles and they're walking on it and hovering in such numbers that I can hear them from a distance. The birds don't seem to mind and will eat if hungry. The bees aren't aggressive but I'm curious if anyone knows what this behavior is about. Thanks

 

[Al Gerhart]

Just some hungry bees. Watch your feed consumption, a quarter pound per hen per day, ignore roosters unless you have a lot of them. Figure out what the bees are eating per day or week, can't imagine if it is too much but what do I know.... if it is, treadle feeders can stop a bee a lot easier than a rat. If it made economic sense and I'd lean toward feeding the local bees unless it was really costing a lot in lost feed.