@Bahbees - It's so hot and dry this year that our area has lost many old growth trees in the Nyssa sp. which grow in wet conditions. Local lakes are low, with wide, dried mud-rings around them.
The Liriope (popular ornamental) has bloomed for a couple of weeks and is fading out. Now, we have about one honey bee per square foot on a small meadow of Richardia (Mexican clover). And with the honey bees, all sorts of others too...tiny bees with green heads....itty bitty orange bees...mini moths...swallowtail butterflies...
I've got the irrigation system on regularly to keep that nectar flowing.