Butternut squash

Hi

Tried to keep an veg plot and this is my 3rd year. We have planted for the first time this year a butternut squash plant (dont know what variety - it just said butternut on the market!)

Its maybe around a foot long, but has around 12 flowers buds on it, reading previous posts from last year, how can I tell a male flower from a female flower, I suppose this question goes for cucumbers. Reading advice before I planted it - people said dont really plant more than one but I wasnt expecting THAT many fruits!

I line in SW France so weather is warmer here, although it has been unusually wet here too! Cloudy 24 today!

Here is an old thread that shows male and female flowers on a courgette.
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=19092.msg232199#msg232199

The flowers are similar for squash/pumpkins/courgettes/cucumbers...
I hope we get some good weather for the bees to do their work, or we'll get no fruit, unless we pollinate the flowers by hand. (strip the petals off a male flower, and insert into the middle of the female flower)