How Do You Attract Hummingbirds?

If you live in an area where hummingbirds visit, consider welcoming them to your home this year.

Reader Contribution by Fala Burnette
Updated on May 20, 2025
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by Fala Burnette
A Ruby-throated Hummingbird, perched at a feeder full of clear sugar water.

How do you attract hummingbirds? Welcome hummingbirds and other pollinators to your home by creating hummingbird attractors like natural nectar feeders and nesting materials.

If you live in an area where hummingbirds visit, consider welcoming them to your home this year. You can provide a variety of helpful things for them, even in a small space, whether that be homemade nectar or nesting material. Learn how to begin, or even improve, your own hummingbird paradise!

Welcoming Hummingbirds to Your Home

People around the world marvel at the tiny wonders that are known as “hummingbirds”, though many may never have the opportunity to see these birds due to the fact they are uniquely New World birds only found within the Americas. With over 300 species of hummingbirds, only a handful are found in North America, including the well-known Ruby-throated Hummingbird which makes its way across the Gulf of Mexico and northward for the breeding season. Some hummingbirds like the Anna’s and Allen’s Hummingbird will stay year-round within the United States. Within this article you will also find helpful video and article links to help you learn more. If you live in an area that sees these beautiful birds, consider adding one (or a combination) of the following aspects to your home to welcome them!

Hummingbirds consume insects as the significant portion of their diet, while nectar gives them energy that they need. Leaving small spider webs not only allows the hummingbirds to possibly consume the spider, but nesting females will also collect spider silks to help bind their nests together during the construction of a new nest or refurbishment of old nests. Some people also hang out mesh bags with fruit peels to help attract insects to an area for the hummingbirds.

How Do You Attract Hummingbirds? Make Your Own Nectar

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