If the stigma is near the anther, I usually pull the anthers off. I don't see many insects on my daylilies. I get mostly ants or earwigs and they are usually down in the center of the flower. I get an occasional bumble bee but they seem to pick the yellow flowers or the fragrant daylilies most. I don't ever get very many butterflies on my daylilies, very seldom. Also, living in the suburbs, I do not get many hummingbirds either. I mainly hybridize spiders/ufo's though and usually the stigma is pretty long and far from the anthers. Some tets I have it seems the stigma and anthers are very close in length and I worry about pollen contamination in those types.
