Thank you, fellow hummingbird lovers. They have a way of stealing into your heart, don't they? It was awhile before I gave much thought to all the good they are doing in my yard and garden. That endeared them to me even more,
Ya'll probably know about smearing a ring of petroleum jelly around feeder poles to stop the ants and crawling insects from reaching the feeders.
And there has been a big discussion going on about bees and wasps being attracted to the color yellow but not the color red. This year I purchased feeders that didn't have the yellow "flower" nectar ports for the hummers to drink from and didn't notice any wasps or bees bothering the feeders. I guess there's something to that. I've also noticed that manufacturers are making more feeders that don't have much or any yellow on them. The public is starting to speak with their pocketbooks.
