Gardening

definitely lack of bees mean lack of cukes and squash - hand pollination can work.

Tomato flowers are perfect (they pollinate while opening - anthers brush against the pistil and do the deed), but high temps can inactivate the pollen.

You can use the male flowers to brush the pollen into the female flowers for squash and cukes.

We seem to have a reasonable bee population here, but I've seen less honeybees than last year (bumbles are pretty plentiful).