Close-up photo of a squash bee on top of a squash flower. It's a pretty standard fuzzy black and yellow bee.

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   Sarah Taber (sarahtaber@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 00:24:14 JST Sarah Taber

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   Bee facts are back! Let's talk about squash bees!

   Squash bees only visit flowers of squash, gourd, pumpkin, melon, and cucumber plants.

   These plants have big, sticky pollen grains. Squash bees' leg hairs are long & unbranched so they can pick up & carry their pollen.