Question
I live in Lasveggas. 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
Michelle,
If you have sugar water you'll have ants. No way to discourage ants but not butterflies I think. The best way to have butterflies is to plant PLANTS that they like, not sugar water, and these will attract them.  They would prefer natural food, after all.

all the best,
C.L.