Natalie said:Bees adore daylilies, but the hummingbirds, at least at my house, aren't interested, and neither are butterflies. They do check them out occasionally, but don't stay long. I always see butterflies in my garden, but they are flying right past the daylilies and almost never stop.
I see hummingbirds checking out the daylilies too. They much not get much from them, because their interest is fleeting and rare.
Natalie said:I hybridize daylilies, and before moving to my current house, I had a race a bumblebee every morning to get to the pollen before it did. It was really funny! That thing was so weighed down with pollen that it could barely fly! It knew were the all-you-could-eat buffet was, and it was in my backyard. 
That bumblebee and I learned to co-exist though. If it got to one part of the yard first, I'd hybridize in the other part. The next day, we would swap places. Worked well for both of us, but some mornings I had to get up just as the sun was coming up and race out there before it arrived.
My nemesis is the Carpenter Bee, a big, glossy, solid black bee which resembles a Bumblebee, with a voracious appetite for pollen. Fortunately, the mornings are cool enough so that I can usually beat them to it if I'm out there before 6:30. I seldom hybridize this early, because most of the pollen sacs aren't open, and the pistils don't appear ready, so I just do a fast pollen collection before it's time to brew & enjoy a cuppa. 9:30-10:00 seems to be the sweet spot for hybridizing.
Because the Carpenter Bees make such a big mess, if I want to set a pod on a flower I have to strip and discard every stamen, otherwise they'll dust the pistil tip as they work. Last week I saw that one of them had learned a disturbing new trickâafter stripping the stamens, it would swing over to the pistil, shinny to the tip and grab whatever I had put there. It's the only one I've seen doing that.
Honeybees aren't much of a problem, as they appear in the afternoon, and seem to only target the nectar at the base of the pistil.
