Do bees paint their faces?
25 June 2019 I’ve made a surprising and interesting discovery this year in the garden. Perhaps that statement may be a little hyperbole. It’s not a new discovery to science, just to me. When bimbling around the garden this late spring and early summer I’ve noticed a number of very small flying insects zipping around and occasionally landing on the yellow leaves of a Choisia. Up until a couple of weeks ago I dismissed them as some sort on midge, and way beyond my poor identification skills to even consider for a nanosecond to try and ID. One morning when there was nothing much around I attempted a photograph anyway. Why you may ask. Well, because I could! When I looked at the image on the iPad later that day I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was a miniature bee. One which had very distinctive facial markings. “Ohhh.....I wonder what that is?” I mumbled to myself. I have to mumble to myself, everyone else in the house tolerates my fumbling forays into the the world of ent...