Subject: [Tweeters] Ants at hummingbird feeders: any effective repellants?
Date: Jul 2 11:32:23 2006
From: Alan Richards & Ann Musche' - mrm at willapabay.org


Hello All,

We have several hummingbird feeders, tacked up with nails to various beams
around the outside porch areas of our house. We find that after a short
time, sometimes just days, ants find the feeders, dive in to the enclosed
sugar water, commit ant-suicide, and then the hummingbirds are,
understandably, no longer interested.

Has anyone out there found a way to repel these unwelcome invaders?

Feel free to answer off-list.

Thanks for any info,
Alan Richards / Naselle WA 98638 / mrm AT willapabay DOT org