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July 14, 2008
Hummingbirds especially like the color red. If you have electric fences around your yard with red insulators, please paint them black or white, so hummers won’t think they are flowers and fly into the electrified fence.
Pesticides are another concern. Hummers eat tiny insects and spiders and feed on the tree sap that attracts them. Pesticides used on hummingbird plants is a very bad idea because the pesticides will kill the insects and spiders that form a large part of the protein portion of a hummer’s diet and they might ingest the pesticide directly sprayed onto the flowers which could make them sick of even kill them. Remember the tiny size of hummingbirds — even a small dose of pesticide can be deadly!
So in addition to maintaining your hummingbird feeder, be very diligent about the surrounding vegetation and area.
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