I'm in the country. On two sides I have farms and on two sides I have forest. There are enormous numbers of deer in this area and they come through my daylily field. They eat the young daylily sprouts in the early spring and again in the late fall. The rest of the year there is enough food for them in the natural areas and they do not bother the daylily flowers, buds or pods.
There was one year when some of the buds and flowers were eaten in the early part of our flowering season. That was because a doe decided to have her fawn nearby and she used my daylily field for quick meals to stay in sight of her baby.
There was another year when a porcupine decdied that the pods were good food.
If I want to stop the deer from eating the daylily sprouts I would need to put up a 6 wire electric fence (to nine feet high) and then get the deer to learn to avoid the fenced area by being shocked by the fence by baiting it (apparently with aluminum strips and peanut butter).
