Question
I just bought 3 Petunias, 1 Dahlia and a Potato plant(in an diffrent area) on 9/28/08 and I had a butterfly feeder with suger water and cantalope leaning against my flag pole. Well ants found it and are all in the butterfly feeder and on the 4 flowers below the flag pole wich are causing them to droop and die fast so can you please tell me how to get rid of the ants but not still keep trying to attract butterflies.

Answer
I would not use the sugar water or the cantalope (if you were using that to attract butterflies).   I am 99 percent sure that is why you have the ants in the first place.  As soon as you are rid of that, wait a day or two and see if the ants leave.  If not, they hate camphor, mint and clove oil.  Soak a few cotton balls in essential oils with any of this in it and put it at the base of the plant.  They will be gone.
As far as butterlies go, I attract butterflies myself by planting flowers that they like.  Go to google.com and do a search for all the different plants in your zone that they like.  Good luck and write me back if you need anything else. Vikki :)