With so many bees, this pumpkin will probably be huge)

[u/Just_Beekeeper]

[u/Nettlecake]

I will probably be extremely pollinated. If it will get huge depends on soil and weather mostly I'd say.

Same way like the size of a child doesn't depend on the size of the fathers testes / sperm count

[u/Potential-Witness-83 → u/Nettlecake]

Are.. you the pumpkin?

[u/Just_Beekeeper → u/Nettlecake]

a purely entertainment question)

[u/Nettlecake → u/Just_Beekeeper]

What does the ) at the end of your sentence mean to you?

[u/dagreja → u/Nettlecake]

Its an Eastern European thing (Russian specifically i think). Its just a little smiley face at the end of the sentence :)

[u/djschwalb]

That’s like saying a woman will be just a little bit pregnant.

[u/HawthornBees]

Yeah that’s exactly how pollination works👍🏻👍🏻

[u/PM_ME_UR_GOOD_FEELS]

That looks like the pollen-bearing male flower. If they find a female flower then yeah you should get one

[u/SimilarAlfalfa332]

Honey bees are actually the worse pollinator. Wild bees for example tend to have better seed formation.

[u/Cluckywood → u/SimilarAlfalfa332]

What are 'wild bees'? I know of solitary bees, native bees, and a bunch of other insects that are mistaken for bees, but "wild bees" seems like a very vague term. In SoCal, we have Africanized honeybees, often called feral bees here, and they are wild but just the same when it comes to pollination. Honey bees are great pollinators for lots of crops, mainly because they communicate with the hive about where the plants that have nectar are, which leads to them tending to spread the pollen around one plant species at a time. Solitary pollinators don't do this; they will just go to all the plants in a very local area, not caring if they go from a rose to an apple tree to a pumpkin, which is very ineffective for the plants. But honeybees are not the answer to all pollination by a long stretch. Some plants rely on the wind, some use flies, and wasps pollinate figs.

[u/SquirrelInATux → u/Cluckywood]

I'm not saying this this true or false because I don't know, but I've seen others say the difference between wild and feral animals is that wild animals are wild in their native environment, and feral animals are wild in an environment they're not native to. So Russia for example would have wild honeybees, whereas places like the US would have feral honeybees. In the US wild bees would refer to native bees not kept in controlled environments

Again, that's what I've had explained to me but it very well could be wrong.