I think I’ve got a squash bee

Looks like a honey bee, but this one keeps returning to the bottom of a plant pot that’s sitting next to my pumpkin plant (only thing that’s flourishing in my garden right now). It’s been about 3 or 4 days, and she’s constantly to and from the same spot. Safe to say she’s trying to build a nest. I’ll leave her to it.

I don’t see the green sweat bee anymore. Maybe she moved away. Even so, it was flattering that my garden was considered.

With a squash bee helping, maybe I’ll be successful growing pumpkins this year. 🤞

Side note, the grackles have taken over the palm trees. I don’t think the falcons will be back. 😞
I don’t see signs of the harvester ant anymore either. I think everyone is getting booted. They lost the competition for ideal spaces around my yard. It’s interesting to watch play out.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

I had a nest of bumble-bees in my garden a few Summers ago.

I've also seen mason-bees investigating holes in the house wall, and last year a leaf-cutter bee made her nest in a steel tube that forms my washing-line cleat.

Some of my plants, especially the Cyanotis shrub's blue flowers, attract quite a variety of bees and also blue-bottles. While the garden's wild flowers - a dog-rose, ivy-leaved toad-flax and plentiful ragged-robin (I think it is) - bring in many pollinating instects too.