Tiny. Found by Peter Šima in the village of Imeľ in Slovakia. Here now, you can go there: 47°54'35.36"N , 18°8'19.57"E and catch Nomioides minutissmus yourself (as an aside, when reading "minutissmus" I had a flash, a brief vision, of some sort of arcane musical notion: re: "play this section very smallily", perhaps this notation does exist, wouldn't that be jazzy?). Refocus....This bee is a scant few millimetres and would appear (from my Western Hemisphere perspective) to be the Perdita analog of the Old World. (Different families though, Nomioides is Halictidae). Here is a question. World- wide do all non-colonial tiny tiny dust sized bees tend to be brightly colored? I think so, but haven't made a study of it. Photo by Cole Cheng.
