It's the great pumpkin pollinator! Meet the squash bee
![Female squash bee on a male pumpkin flower (Photo by Margaret Chan)](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/blog/female-squash-bee-male-pumpkin-flower-by-sue-willis-chan-thumb.jpg)
Female squash bee on a male pumpkin flower (Photo by Margaret Chan)
At my house, Halloween is a frenzy of pumpkins — those lovely globes that throb with the vitality of summer. We carve them into frightening orange-skinned, ghoulish-grinned beasts set aglow by the light of beeswax candles. I fell in love...