I'm trying solve the mystery of my rather large number of "bee pods" in my garden this year. I have never had so many, (most years I have none) and this year they are almost all on plants in a particular part of the garden - not randomly distributed. Furthermore, there are plants where every bloom stalk has a pod, sometimes more than one.
In the past when I have has bee pods, they've always been empty. So, I just broke open an immature pod that was a goner anyway because the stalk had broken off. It looked to me as if there were a line of tiny white immature seeds inside. I have no way of knowing if they would have matured into anything.
This year in my garden I have often seen a tiny iridescent fly that I don't recall noticing before (though that doesn't mean it wasn't there). I found this on the web, and this seems to be it:
https://ohioline.osu.edu/facts...
They are pollinators! Last year, my sweet peppers were amazing. I thought it was the alfalfa tea, but maybe these guys were involved.
