For those interested in the bees.
I was watching the bees and butterflies mob my Evodia tree (or Tedradium daniellii, depending on what you want to call it). At the same time I noticed clouds of tiny flies around the flowers. I had never noticed such numbers of tiny flies being attracted to my other “pollinator attractive” plants.
I managed to get close to some of the flowers on the lower branches and look closer at the “flies”.
I was horrified to see on closer inspection that they were tiny bees that I had mistaken for flies. I measured the Evodia’s petal and it is between 4-5 mm., so that gives you an indication of how small these bees are.
I have already posted about Carpenter bees in France.
I can imagine these big but harmless bees terrifying tourists from northern Europe as they relax in the garden of their holiday home and experience these bees…
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a french garden 
We have a carpenter bee at the moment that frequents the flowers on our balcony down here in Vinca – beautiful creatures
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They are particularly beautiful when the sunshine catches their wings and shows off the purple glints. Amelia
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These lovely mini-bees are known in East Anglia as sweat bees…
a very unfair name, but accurately describes their habit of drinking sweat from arms and forehead…
harvesting moisture and any minerals we may add by way of perspiration.
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As I sit here in my office on the second floor of my house in the Pyrenees, the window is open and the wisteria is still in bloom. It is a sea of these magnificent carpenter bees. I have tried on so many occasions to take a photograph that will do them justice but have yet to achieve that ambition, so well done! He(she?) looks magnificent.
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I love the Carpenter bees too. They are very shy though and difficult to get near to photograph. Amelia
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