[TN-Bird] Monarch Butterflies

For the past week I have been having Mornarch butterflies coming to my 
hummingbird feeders.  While some will fly when a bird comes in, others will sit 
tight and suddenly flash their wings open and scare the bird away.  This is 
obviously intentional and it works.  While I can't imagine a hummingbird 
pecking a Monarch in the first place, it may be obeying an instinct passed down 
from an experienced forefather that this is one insect that tastes so bad it 
causes repeated gags.
 I also have house flies and red wasps at my feeders.  The wasps I can handle 
but I haven't had flies before.  Does anyone know how to keep them away from 
the feeders?  Some of them get through the insect guard into the feeder tray. 


Robbie Hassler
Byrdstown,TN
Pickett county

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