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admmad said:
Be aware that some daylilies start to open their flowers in the early afternoon, others in the evening and yet others during the night. There are night-flying moths and some of the daylily species were/are adapted to being naturally pollinated by night flying moths (and possibly other night flying insects) and other daylily species were/are adapted to being naturally pollinated by day flying insects. It has been noted that hand pollinations of some daylilies in the morning may never take - because the night flying insects beat the hybridizer and deposited pollen of the incorrect ploidy or self-pollinated a self-incompatible daylily. Imagine the problem if the night flying insects pollinated such daylilies and were partially successful and the hybridizer's hand pollinations were also partially successful.

Great point! We're a pollinator-friendly garden and I have a fondness for nocturnals and EMOs due to my day job, so the struggle is real! I've sometimes used the same pollen source to pollinate the same pistil a couple of times: once in the early morning, and again later. Any data or experience on how useful that is?