On 2010-07-23 14:32:08 -0400, Giles said:

On Jul 23, 1:13*pm, Giles wrote:

...adding a THIRD feeder....

Incidentally, I recall reading something about the nuisance of having
wasps at feeders in the "Hummers" thread. Don't know whether the
style of feeder has anything to do with this, but in a hundred or so
hours of more or less close observation over the past year or so I
have never yet seen a wasp at our feeders. For what it's worth, we
use this one:


You recall correctly. We have been feeding hummers for 25 years.
Joanne discovered some years ago (I think she read it somewhere) that
wasps and other nuisance insects are attracted by the color yellow.
She bought feeders without yellow on them, and we have since not been
bothered by them. We have used the feeder you recommended, and it
attracted wasps/hornets, etc.

We have always had trouble with ants (in Massachusetts anyway) until we
started using a feeder with a built-in moat.

A good website:
http://www.hummingbirds.net/feeders.html#ants
and
http://www.hummingbirds.net/humzinger.html
for the feeders.

Dave, aka Stupid, Moron, Idiot, Chief, et alii

d;o)