Online resources say 1:4 sugar to water ratio by volume. This translates to about 1:5 by weight
To be more precise: 0.25 cups sugar is 48 g, 1 cup water is 237 g, so the ratio is 1:4.9375 or 0.2025:1 or 16.8% sugar by weight. For my small feeder, I do 30 g sugar to 150 g water.
Remember to use only refined white sugar. Online resources say that substitutes (e.g. organic sugar that is a bit darker) may be bad for the birds.
For God's sake!!!! Is 2022!!! Let's say, I'm snowflake....Let's say, I'm a 3 years old child....Let's say, I'm a Golden Retriever..
ReplyDeleteSo, I have 1,000 grams water; how many grams of sugar do I need, in order to make a decent quality hummingbird nectar???
Thank you very much!!!
Are you sure you want to make a liter of hummingbird nectar? It goes bad pretty fast... Anyway, 0.2025 * 1000 g = 202.5 g sugar.
DeleteIf you have five or six hummingbirds, they can go through a half liter a day, so really, a liter is not that much!
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