On Jul 23, 5:15*pm, D. LaCourse wrote:
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.

Interesting. I know little enough about wasps to feel comfortable in
asserting that I've got absolutely nothing to add that would do any of
us any good.

We have used the feeder you recommended, and it
attracted wasps/hornets, etc.

I haven't recommended anything. Merely pointed out that we use the
one I directed attention to.

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

I remember reading in a couple of books, one of them, "The Path
Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914," by
David McCullough and the other some book about yellow fever whose name
and author escape me at the moment, to the effect that they used to
use the same technique in Panama during the construction of the
canal. The legs of the beds in the hospitals were placed in saucers
full of water to prevent ants from crawling up onto the patients. It
worked.

On the other hand, Aedes Aegypti really liked those saucers.

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

Cool. Thanks.

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

d;o)

Hm.....

g.