The land conservation org I work for is launching a pollinator pathway project for Halloween, so I figured there should be an appropriate pumpkin carved for the occasion!
It’s a squash bee on a squash flower! (And they are really cool, definitely look them up. ) This pumpkin isn’t hollowed out and illuminated because I had to carve it really early so I could use it in an article. It’s a little sugar pie pumpkin, and in the next couple of days it will be sacrificed for a delicious pumpkin recipe. At least it can be immortalized here!
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holy moley! Great pumpkin and great cause!
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Wow! Very cool and skillful carving!
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This is excellent! 
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Wow, so cool! And great cause.
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Beautiful AND edible! Great work.
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I LOVE this so much!
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This is amazing. Carving a pumpkin isn’t that easy, you made it look so effortless. It’s beautiful!
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Very impressive carving! It looks like it could be a wood-cut stamp! This makes me wonder if detailed work like this would be easier for me to do before hollowing out the center… I guess then I would have to be extra careful scooping out guts.
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I worked on the BeeByway project here, and had such a good time! It sounds like yours is similar! I hope it went well, and the pumpkin pie was excellent!
It does!!
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Thank you, lovelies! I was strongly considering trying to take a print of the cut on cloth or paper, but trying to figure out the odd-roundness and not having the right sort of paint confounded me, and I got impatient. It did make a delicious mac and cheese, though. 
