US Patent 10485225 Hive top feeder

Systems, devices, and methods for providing a hive top feeder assembly with a feeder housing that can attach and attach to a top of a bee hive box/container, with a downwardly protruding entrance cone with or without locking arms/wings that can attach within an opening in the hive box/container. The feeder housing can have a hollow feeder cone and a sloped ladder to allow bees to climb up and down steps to reach and consume syrup from a syrup reservoir inside the feeder housing, followed by reversing their path to go down to the hive box/container to later make honey.