>  I think the idea is to stimulate bees from flying out and bringing
it back in.

Good point.

Although the best use for open feeding IMO is fall feeding in the right
circumstances, I seem to recall Dave Green mentioning that offering a
little syrup in the open can wake up a yard and get dozy bees to notice
a nearby crop waiting to be pollinated.

Bees won't always respond to open feed.  I recall having to pour a few
ounces onto the cluster of every hive in a yard, once, to get the bees
to go out and empty a full drum that had sat in the yard for a week,
untouched, in late fall.  I picked up the empty drum the next day.

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