Snoozing Squash Bees

July 13, 2025 00:04:22
Snoozing Squash Bees
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Snoozing Squash Bees

Jul 13 2025 | 00:04:22

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Show Notes

Squash bees are out early in the morning and moving pollen around well before honey bees even arrive. Research done by the Department of Agriculture found that squash bees “are largely responsible for the production of cultivated squash across North America and much of the Americas.” That is very cool, right? I like buffalo gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima) and I haven’t talked about it in many years, so this was fun. If you were to do a little homework you’d find that there has been a lot of research on both the seed of the gourd and also of the tuberous…

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