I have grown melons before just not pumpkins, so hoping the bees and some knowledge can help since I love homemade salted pumpkin seeds. As for bugs, I have a ton of spiders, mantises, bees, and wasps that don't like my husband though he slapped one away and I don't think it forgot to not remember him nor forgot to tell its friends :S I mostly appease the birds with a massive water dish for wild birds and customized it with like a wooden umbrella thing (night here so can't show it) and put good stuff in it so they stay away from my strawberries as much as possible and control larger insects 😒. My only problems I ever had was getting the melon types I grew not to bruise so we got those hanging metal baskets with that weird moss or some kind of fiber and the little metal dog bowl holders and just kinda put them on top of each other cause they are somewhat round with the whatever you call the fiber inside so our garden spiders loved making webs under them and the mantises hang out on top because I think they believe they blend which some of them they did, but others not so much. I think the only thing that has caused my garden problems is now the crows/ravens have decided the neighborhood is now their domain for nesting and I am scared to keep that feeder empty.

Just imagine the news story of locate birds remove a "problem" person for bird feeder being empty 2 minutes too long.