Such good memories of mango trees. I remember when people with Mango trees used to set out bags of these delicious foods on the sidewalk for anyone to take, or leave them on their stone walls for whoever wanted one. I miss that! I hardly ever see that happening any more. One of the things I remember best about Mangos is the sound and sensation of them falling on a tin roof in the middle of the night! Loud enough to rouse anyone from a sound sleep. I think most people are just too lazy to rake up the leaves and so their solution is to cut the down the tree, forgetting that they also provide valuable shade which will be much needed as temperatures continue to climb. I don't know about the influence of bees but seems strange that the mango tree I planted bloomed for the first time this year but only had 1 mango on it. Of course the wind caused some loss of our avos and ulu but don't know what happened with with our mango tree. The other tree I really miss are the smell-good plumeria.