Carpenter Bee on Eve’s Necklace

The official CB Sophora affinis is blooming like crazy this year, perhaps in anticipation of no rain, like forever. Seriously though, Crumby has noticed that when a plant is fixing to get super stressed or die, it goes crazy, fixing to compensate. That may be what’s happening here.

At least two species of carpenter bee go to the flowering Eve’s necklace. Crumby has tentatively identified this one as Xylocopa micans. The other one is, of course, the lively yet goofy Xylocopa tabaniformis parkinsoniae.