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You never know what you'll find out in the garden!🐝

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Long horned bee on a yellow squash blossom
August 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
anaturejournal.bsky.social
When you grow squash, you’ll attract the Xenoglossa pruinosa (Pruinose Squash Bee)! These ground-nesting, native bees are strict specialists for Cucurbit pollen. You’ll find them active in the morning pollinating vegetables exclusively belonging to the squash family! #xenoglossapruinosa #squashbee
Looking into the yellow flower of a zucchini. To the right-center is a squash bee collecting the yellow pollen. These specialist bees are superior pollinators for all vegetables in the squash family. A photograph looking down at a yellow zucchini plant with 2 ripen yellow zucchinis and a 5 petal star shaped yellow flower.
June 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
boaceae.bsky.social
Got lost in the squash with this one...
Squash bees are specialists on cucurbits, and I think that's pretty cool and niche of them.

Sept. 8 Prompt: niche
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An ink and marker drawing of a squash bee (Xenoglossa strenua) for the prompt, "niche." The bee is facing right and has a pronounced nasal region of its face; I don't know specific anatomical names for bee facial structures (I would guess it is the labrum...) It basically looks like a hairy bee with a big nose. There are squash/gourd flowers, tendrils, and gourd shapes incorporated throughout the art: flowers are mostly on the hind legs+ thorax, and the plant tendrils are mostly background features. Color scheme is primarily greens, yellows, orange, and tan.
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Squash bee

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Colour macro photo of a squash bee inside a yellow squash flower Colour macro photo of a squash bee inside a yellow squash flower
June 20, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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And here they are!! My mom's offered to buy them if nobody else does 😄
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A sheet of paper containing three graphite drawings of bees. The upper left is a long-horned bee, the upper right is a european/western honeybee, and the lower drawing is a squash bee. All the drawings are shaded fully in greyscale, so the colouration of each species is not visible aside from light versus dark.
September 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM