And yet a better ant trap?  Get a plastic bottle cap, a 6" length of coat
hangar, and some petroleum jelly.  Drill a hole in the center of the bottle
cap slightly smaller than the diameter of the coat hangar wire.  Insert  the
coat hangar through the hole with the cap facing down.  Bend about 1" of
both ends of the coat hangar to form hooks.  Fill the cap with petroleum
jelly.  Place the baffle in-between whatever the feeder is hanging from and
the feeder.  This simple, inexpensive solution works quite well for me.

Tom Marko
Olney, MD
Montgomery Bird Club (MOS)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Sarah Anderson
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:29 PM
To: 
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Will ants keep hummers away?

In a message dated 8/19/2005 10:15:52 AM Eastern Standard Time,
 writes: read  somewhere that rubbing Vicks Vaporub around
the hanging part of the  hummingbird feeder would keep ants out.  I tried
it, and to my  total surprise, it works!