Yesterday, I went swimming in Barton Springs and saw what I believe to be a squash bee. This was exciting to me after all the recent buzz about the extinction of the all the pollinators. Bees are extremely important to the ecosystem and can even be said to be responsible for one out of every three bites of food we take. This is because most of the crops grown for their fruits require pollination by insects and bees are by far the biggest and main pollinators. They make such great pollinators because they have hairs all over their body’s that attract the pollen grain and allows them to collect and transfer it easily. In addition, they typically focus on one type of flower at a time.
Source: http://nativeplants.msu.edu/pollination
iNaturalist Observation: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4391631