Pumpkins & Bees

This is why bees are so handy to have around if you want to grow pumpkins:

This bee is crawling out of a male pumpkin flower after a drink of nectar from right at the base of the flower. As you can see, in the process of getting that nectar, she gets covered in pollen. She cleans it from her wings and her eyes before flying to the next flower but there is still plenty stuck to her to pollinate a female flower!