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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 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.