I have read different things as well on the issue, thanks Char for those links you posted. I have read in some article that it isn't the home gardeners that are causing the big problems since the products they use have low amounts of the chemicals, it's the commercial growers (and that's with a wide rang of chemicals).
I must say I have never seen a honeybee on my daylilies. I have seen bumble bees (not too often) and whatever those really small bees are but never honey bees. I would say other than the really small bees that the only other thing that feeds from my daylilies is butterflies. I'm not saying other things don't, I have just never seen any not even hummingbirds.
At my old place I had other plants besides daylilies (that did not get chemicals) and I would say that the bees there preferred certain plants. The Bumble Bees pretty much lived on my Mexican Heathers (about half actually slept on them overnight) and the honeybees preferred the crape myrtles and another tree I had that had super sweet smelling tiny white flowers (the love bugs loved it as well). I had 10 hummingbird feeders at my old place to and I counted about 150 hummingbirds at any given time fighting over them and not a single one ever visited the daylilies. I had some actually hung in the daylily beds and the hummers would use the daylilies as a hiding place to surprise attack any intruding hummers that wasn't allowed to feed but never fed from them.
Where I'm at now I have never seen a hummer or honey bee (just butterflies and the small bees and occasional bumble bee) feeding from the daylilies. All the bees and hummers hang out in the wild flowers, cardinal vines, and weed flowers on the property beside us.
